Project description
Understanding transnational marriages in Islamic contexts
While consideration of privileged mobility often focuses on retirees, tourists, and short-term expatriates, the dynamics of long-term settlement through transnational marriages receive less attention. Privileged migrants frequently marry host country citizens, with European women often marrying African men and European men marrying South-East Asian women. These relationships, especially in Islamic countries, involve complex adaptations to differing gender norms. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, the PriMCo project explores these dynamics through a comparative study in Malaysia and Mauritania. Using ethnography, interviews, and filmmaking, PriMCo examines how race, gender, and class are renegotiated in these transnational unions. The project aims to combat racism and highlight the diversity and richness of transnational families.
Objective
While attention on privileged mobility has predominantly centered on retirees, tourists, lifestyle migrants or obligatory short-term expatriates, scant consideration has been given to the dynamics of medium- or long-term settlement linked to transnational conjugality. Yet, privileged migrants often marry citizens of the host country, and these migratory and matrimony flows are gendered. Whereas European women tend to form conjugal relationships with African men, European men are predominantly involved with South-East Asian women. How can we comprehend these cartographies of desire? Particularly in Islamic countries, what motivates European men and women to establish permanent residences and families in settings where gender norms significantly differ from their countries of origin? How do they adapt to these normative regimes and in what ways do they challenge power relations within the conjugal experience and their host societies? Furthermore, how do they navigate their positions between the two countries to which they belong? To tackle these issues, the project “Privileged Mobility and Transnational Conjugality in Islamic countries: reconsidering global power relations from gender perspective in Southeast Asia and West Africa” (PriMCo) relies on a comparative case study encompassing the Mauritanian and Malaysian capitals based on anthropological (ethnography), sociological (semi-structured, biographical interviews, focus group) and visual methods (filmmaking). This research critically examines the notion of white privilege, shedding a light on the renegotiation of race, gender, and class relations within intimate and global contexts. In addition, at a societal level, by documenting the experiences of individuals from diverse national, racial, and religious backgrounds who engage in relationships, PriMCo fights against racist prejudice and raises awareness of the existence, diversity and richness of transnational families.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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