This book explores how various types of migration that are often seen as distinct phenomena – such as marriage migration, romance tourism and sex work migration – are in fact variations of cross-border mobilities that evolve around experiences and constructions of “intimacy”...

Foreword Katharine Charsley Introduction: Intimate Mobilities and Mobile Intimacies Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez PART I: MIGRATION REGIMES AND THEIR INTIMATE DISCONTENTS Chapter 1. Transnational Matchmaking: Marriage Practices of Chinese Migrants from Qingtian Living in Europe Martina Bofulin Chapter 2. Temporary Intimacies, Incipient Transnationalism, and Failed Cross-Border Marriages Nicole Constable Chapter 3. Screening for Romance and Compatibility in Brussels’s Civil Registrar Office: Practical Norms Of Bureaucratic Feminism Mäité Maskens PART II: CIRCUITS OF SEX, RACE AND GENDERED BODIES Chapter 4. Survival Within A Multi-Circuited Maze: Latin American Sex Workers In Spain Laura Oso Chapter 5. Mobility through the Sexual Economy: Exchanging Sexual Capital for Respectability in Mozambican Women’s Marriage Migration to Europe Christian Groes Chapter 6. Fluid Sexualities Beyond Sex Work and Marriage: Thai Migrants’ Racialized Gender Performance in Copenhagen Marlene Spanger PART III: MORALITIES OF MONEY, MOBILITY AND INTIMACY Chapter 7. From Programas to Help and Marriage: Transnational Sexual, Economic and Affective Exchanges among Brazilian Women Adriana Piscitelli Chapter 8. True Love and Cunning Love: Negotiating Intimacy, Deception and Belonging in Touristic Cuba Valerio Simoni Chapter 9. The Masculine and Moral Self: Migration Narratives of Cuban Husbands in Scandinavia Nadine T. Fernandez Index

“[The] volume represents a forceful challenge to dominant narratives about mobility and migration being the results of “push and pull” economic factors.” • Geopolitics “Bringing together the concepts of intimacy and mobility, Groes and Fernandez have composed a collection of articles that show not only how enriching the concept of intimacy is for mobility but also the other way round… With the presented volume, Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez published a book that is inspiring for researchers interested in mobilities, intimacies, and especially intimate mobilities.” • Anthropos “[This volume] marks a significant contribution to the literature on labor migration, cross-border marriages, and transnational intimacies. The book is a must-read for migration scholars and mobilities researchers concerned with racialization, gender and sexual politics, and the global circulation of bodies, desires, and relations.” • Transfers “Written by an international cluster of leading scholars, this volume combines the work of academics who have engaged in sustained, multi-sited, transnational ethnography with that of newer scholars rethinking the field of marriage, migration state policy, and locality. The scholarship of this volume challenges and transforms the field of migration studies by teaching us how to theorize migration and state immigration policies through the lens of intimate relations.” • Amalia L. Cabezas, University of California, Riverside “This is a solid, worthwhile scholarly contribution that moves our knowledge of migration and intimate relationships further along.” • Gilbert Herdt, San Francisco State University