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Moral boundaries and national borders: Cuban marriage migration to Denmark
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture & Power
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2012
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The discussion of marriage migration in Denmark primarily has focused on citizens of immigrant descent (“New Danes”) who marry partners from their ancestral homeland (often Turkey or Pakistan). This type of marriage migration was the target of the strict Danish family reunification policy instituted in 2002. This paper examines the genealogy of the morality underpinning the family reunification policies and asks whether the rules actually promote this moral agenda or have unintended consequences. Empirically, I shift the focus from immigrant Danes to native Danes who marry Cubans. Finally, while little attention is paid to the non-western country involved, transnational marriages always involve two nations. This paper investigates how state policies on both ends of this migration trajectory shape moral-territorial borders that transnational couples navigate.
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Nadine T. Fernandez Nadine.Fernandez@esc.edu (2013) Moral boundaries and national borders: Cuban marriage migration to Denmark, Identities, 20:3, 270-287, DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2013.806266