Abstract

This chapter uses friction to shed light on transnational marriage migration within the broader Asian context. Two main points on friction are discussed in relation to the gendered experiences of im/mobilities and the intimate geopolitics of marriage and family life on a transnational scale. First, this chapter looks at experiences of im/mobility generated by heteropatriarchal norms, geopolitical inequalities, and divergent disciplinary regimes within home and national spaces. Transnational marriage migration is often fraught with many complications. Migrant precarity and migrant waiting are not an indication of exceptional circumstances but a gendered and embodied everyday norm. Second, this chapter looks closely at the intimate geopolitics across time and space that weave together unequal relations and mixed desires. Tracing historical specificities of intimate unions that involve moving bodies across territorial and sociocultural boundaries, this chapter shows how relationships and relationalities are shaped by individual as well as familial aspirations, and by temporal and longer-term mobility strategies.

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