Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan by Momesso, Lara

Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526189530)

Vendor: Lara Momesso
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Format: Hardcover
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Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan by Momesso, Lara

Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan

$130.00
Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan by Momesso, Lara

Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan

$130.00
Format: Hardcover
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Since the early 1990s, economic exchanges between China and Taiwan have paved the way to migration across a previously closed border and to social and cultural interactions between the two populations. Despite these broader changes, the unresolved issue of Taiwan sovereignty has tainted not only the relations between the two governments but also the everyday life of those who move across the Taiwan Strait. In this politicised environment, intimate and affective practices linked to cross-border marriage and family formation are never just private. Instead, they are deeply entangled with the emotional and affective processes generated at the macro and meso level of political and social life and revolving around national interests. Tracing the intimate, emotional and affective practices linked to family creation, identity formation and integration with the local and national communities, this ethnographic study offers a subjective, dynamic, and complex picture of what it means to be a mainland spouse in Taiwan.

Author: Lara Momesso
ISBN-10: 1526189534
ISBN-13: 9781526189530
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
By Lara Momesso
By Lara Momesso
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Lara Momesso is Senior Lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies at University of Central Lancashire.
Lara is founder and Co-Director of the Northern Institute of Taiwan Studies and founder and Co-Deputy Director of the Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile at the University of Central Lancashire. Lara also is Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS (the University of London, UK), Associate Fellow at the European Research Centre of Contemporary Taiwan (University of Tuebingen, Germany) and elected executive board member of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS).

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