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The spread of the Internet is remaking marriage markets, altering the process of courtship and the geographic trajectory of intimacy in the 21st century. For some Latin American women and U.S. men, the advent of the cybermarriage industry offers new opportunities for re-making themselves and their futures, overthrowing the common narrative of trafficking and exploitation. In this engaging, stimulating virtual ethnography, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer follows couples’ romantic interludes at “Vacation Romance Tours,” in chat rooms, and interviews married couples in the United States in order to understand the commercialization of intimacy. While attending to the interplay between the everyday and the virtual, Love and Empire contextualizes personal desires within the changing global economic and political shifts across the Americas. By examining current immigration policies and the use of Mexican and Colombian women as erotic icons of the nation in the global marketplace, she forges new relations between intimate imaginaries and state policy in the making of new markets, finding that women’s erotic self-fashioning is the form through which women become ideal citizens, of both their home countries and in the United States. Through these little-explored, highly mediated romantic exchanges, Love and Empire unveils a fresh perspective on the continually evolving relationship between the U.S. and Latin America.

Citizenship --- Online dating --- Intermarriage --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Internet dating --- On-line dating --- Web dating --- World Wide Web dating --- Dating (Social customs) --- Marriage, Mixed --- Mixed marriage --- Marriage --- Law and legislation --- 314.74 <73> --- 392.4/.5 <73> --- 392.4/.5 <73> Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--VSA. USA. Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--VSA. USA. Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- Buitenlandse migratie. Emigratie. Immigratie. Remigratie. Repatriering --(demografie)--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA

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Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers, permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless people? How is the concept of citizenship, based on assumptions of deservingness, legality, and productivity, challenged when people of various and competing statuses and differential citizenship practices interact with each other, revealing their co-constitutive connections? How is citizenship valued or revalued when labor and social precarity impact those who seemingly have formal rights and those who seemingly or effectively do not? This book interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, insider/outsider, entitled/unentitled, “legal”/“illegal,” and deserving/undeserving in order to explore the fluidity--that is, the dynamism and malleability--of the spectra of belonging.

Aliens --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Belonging (Social psychology). --- Citizenship --- Emigration and immigration law --- Immigrants --- Marginality, Social. --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- Citizenship, Democratic, Chain Migration, Racialization, Central Americans, United States, Globalization, Sacred Land, Tibetan Refugee-Citizenship, refugee, Migrant Labor, Labor Precarity, immigration, Migrant Domestic Work, Temporary Labor Migration, singapore, Urban Exclusion, Colombia, Legal status, Black Denizenship, Noncitizenship, global capitalism, noncitizens, alienage, permanent residents, guest workers, stateless people.