Cross-border intimacies: Affect and emotions in marriage migration between China and Taiwan
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.
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Cross-border intimacies: Affect and emotions in marriage migration between China and Taiwan
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.
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Cross-border intimacies: Affect and emotions in marriage migration between China and Taiwan

Cross-border intimacies: Affect and emotions in marriage migration between China and Taiwan

by Lara Momesso
Cross-border intimacies: Affect and emotions in marriage migration between China and Taiwan

Cross-border intimacies: Affect and emotions in marriage migration between China and Taiwan

by Lara Momesso

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526189530
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 09/02/2025
Series: Governing Intimacies in the Global South
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Political landscapes
1 Marriage, migration, and the feelings of two nations
2 Governing and claiming borders
Part II: Personal and family journeys
3 Critical temporalities
4 Homemaking – private afflictions and intimate affections
Part III: Post-migration trajectories
5 New citizens of Taiwan
6 Next generations
Conclusions
Bibliography

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