Enduring or Crossing Distance for Love? Negotiating Love and Distance in the Lives of Mixed Transnational Couples
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2643045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Chiyoko King‐o’riain (0000-0002-4573-9218, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, corresponding author), Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 151-160 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.3804 |
| OpenAlex | W2335389681 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
Within the field of transnationalism and globalization, studies have tended to focus on the flow of people, ideas and goods ( Giddens 2003 , Beck 2011 , Fitzgerald 2008 ). Within the field of migration this has meant importantly an increasing focus on studies of gender, migration and emotion ( Brooks and Simpson 2013 ; Svasek and Skrbis 2007 , Baldassar 2008 ). However, these studies tend to focus on the context of migration and how that shapes decisions around migration and belonging without focusing on the effect of migration on emotions themselves. Through ethnographic narrative interviews with 36 mixed transnational couples, this article analyses how the emotion of love is understood and practiced within some 'global families' ( Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 2014 ). The article finds that for the mixed intercultural couples interviewed here, distance played a role in defining and confirming love (love at a distance) and was often seen as a reason to migrate or move (crossing distance for love) as a test or proof that love was real. These different cultural meanings of love show how distance could increasingly play a role in how we define and practice love today
Ethnography · Geographical distance · Globalization · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Transnationalism · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
Ethnic Groups of the Vojvodina Region (Serbia)
Love migrants as digital citizens
Love in motion
The bi-directional impact of a mixed union. People without a migration background in a union with a partner with a migration background
Sociologies of Personal Relationships and the Challenge of Climate Change
Emotions in Transmigration
Mobile Lives
The Global and the Intimate
Modernity at large
Dialogues with Self and Others
Runaway World
Passions and Powers
Transnational lives, transnational marriages
Geographies of Social Networks
Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Families “Here” and “There
On the Move
Missing Kin and Longing to be Together
Transnational Families
Between two families
Long distance intimacy
Home and away
Diversified Transnational Mothering via Telecommunication
Emotional Reflexivity
The Emotionalization of Reflexivity
The Extended Case Method
Colonies of the Little Motherland
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |