The chapter critically reviews some themes arising from different streams of literature having tackled, in recent years, states’ efforts to reproduce their national identities regulating the cross-border intimate lives of their aspiring citizens and residents. Family migration management reflects the tensions brought by the dangers of culturally problematized immigrant social reproduction: excessive fertilities, backward marriages and gender relationships, low-quality human capital and welfare dependency. The chapter explores how different aspects of social reproduction—love and marriage; parenthood, fertility and childbearing; care and dependency among adult relatives—are implicated in issues of migration control, showing how matters of legitimacy and veracity have triggered an emerging set of controls centred on the intimate and bodily life of citizens. As the intimate delineates a porous zone between insiders and outsiders, defining the family proves critical for understanding what immigration means for the nation, calling for a deeper exploration of the nexus between the governance of national reproduction, citizenship and mobility.
Policing the intimate borders of the nation: a review of recent trends in family-related forms of immigration control / P. Bonizzoni - In: Gendering Nationalism : Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality / [a cura di] J. Mulholland, N. Montagna, E. Sanders-McDonagh. - [s.l] : Springer International Publishing, 2018. - ISBN 9783319766980. - pp. 223-239
Titolo: | Policing the intimate borders of the nation: a review of recent trends in family-related forms of immigration control |
Autori: | BONIZZONI, PAOLA (Corresponding) |
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: | Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale Settore SPS/10 - Sociologia dell'Ambiente e del Territorio |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2018 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76699-7_12 |
Tipologia: | Book Part (author) |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 03 - Contributo in volume |
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