Project description
Immigrant integration aspects of marriage
Immigration legislation has widely been studied on an academic level, but not so from the viewpoint of the immigrants themselves. Little is known about how immigrants perceive laws governing integration and family reunification. The EU-funded RE-NUP project will study the implementation of integration law in three European countries through ethnographic research amongst Indian and Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants. The project aims to improve our understanding of how the institution of marriage in Europe and south Asia interacts with immigration laws. RE-NUP will study the role of cultural frameworks in marital ties and their classification and assessment. It will also explore the impact of the interaction with transnational state agencies that define the validity of marriages during visa application evaluation.
Objective
RE-NUP will study the implementation of integration laws in three Europeans countries through the perspective of their primary target groups (spousal visa applicants) as well as the nature and scope of the mandatory education acquired as part of integration requirements. While immigration laws have been a topic of substantial academic interest, the modes through which immigrants themselves negotiate integration laws and its rigorous application in reunification cases continue to be under-represented.
In my previous publications on the interface between the institution of marriage and legal spaces in North India, I have proposed a reconceptualization of the state where sexual subjectivity is not only a source of marginality and vulnerability, as often perceived in scholarly literature, but also an aspirational goal for some. RE-NUP will develop on this reflection further to understand how laws influence and are, in turn, shaped by the divergent ways in which the institution of marriage is defined and practiced in South Asia and Europe.
Through ethnographic research among Indian and Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, I will study how marital ties are forged through an interface with transnational state agencies that determine the validity of marriages while assessing visa/permit applications. How do European states classify and evaluate marital ties across cultural frameworks? Does the concept of cultural expertise facilitate the process of translating cultural norms?
This fellowship will give me an opportunity to undertake specialized training in the field of cultural expertise, combine research with applied work, and extend my competencies in project development, diversity management and intercultural education through an intersectoral secondment and training on transferable skills offered at UNIVE. I will develop an anthropological approach to intercultural training, which is currently missing in the state-of-the-art, and build my career as an independent consultant.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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