Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related "intimate diversity", that is, the simultaneous formation and existence of various configurations of conjugal mixedness. It examines this phenomenon in Belgium in the context of immigration.

Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is a tenured Research Associate (chercheuse qualifiee) of the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and Senior Lecturer (maitresse d'enseignement) at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC) of the Universite libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. She has published widely in English and French including five co-edited Special Issues in peer-reviewed journals and three co-edited volumes. Her works include the volume Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration (co-edited with Liu-Farrer, 2022). She is principal investigator of the research projects BelMix (https://belmix .hypotheses .org/) focusing on the contextual mobility of Belgian-Asian couples and AspirE (https://aspire.ulb.be/) examining the decision-making of aspiring Asian (re-)migrants.

Introduction. Intimate diversity in Belgium through the optic of situated mixedness

Part 1. "Mixed" couples living the context(s) of regulations

1. Religious loss or religious spiritualisation? "Christian-Muslim" couples in Belgium: between secularisation and spiritualisation

2. Minimum income threshold and migrantised citizens: second-class mixedness in the Belgian family reunification regime

3. Bureaucratic couples' interviews as ordeals of desirability: insights from Brussels

4. Intimate mixedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: transnational couples experiencing the effects of travel restrictions

Part 2. Temporal unfolding of intimate diversity

5. Belgian-Asian conjugal mixedness in Belgium since 1992: a quantitative perspective

6. Intimate diversity outside and within: points of convergence of Belgian-Asian couples in Belgium

7. Rapture, rupture, reconstruction: reflections on gay Asian migrant relationship experiences in Belgium

8. Transnationally situated meanings regarding food consumption among Laotian-Belgian couples in Belgium

Conclusion. Rethinking conjugal mixedness and intimate diversity