As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people's mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined with issues of gender, kinship, race, and sexuality, as well as local and global powers and border restrictions in a disparate world.

Christian Groes is an Associate Professor at Roskilde University. His books include Affective Circuits: African Migration to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration (2016, co-ed. Jennifer Cole) and Studying Intimate Matters: Engaging Methodological Challenges in Studies on Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011, co-ed. Barbara Ann Barrett). In 2012, he received the Young Elite Researcher prize from the Danish Council for Independent Research.

Foreword
Katharine Charsley

Introduction: Intimate Mobilities and Mobile Intimacies
Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez

PART I: MIGRATION REGIMES AND THEIR INTIMATE DISCONTENTS

Chapter 1. Transnational Matchmaking: Marriage Practices of Chinese Migrants from Qingtian Living in Europe
Martina Bofulin

Chapter 2. Temporary Intimacies, Incipient Transnationalism, and Failed Cross-Border Marriages
Nicole Constable

Chapter 3. Screening for Romance and Compatibility in Brussels's Civil Registrar Office: Practical Norms Of Bureaucratic Feminism
Mäité Maskens

PART II: CIRCUITS OF SEX, RACE AND GENDERED BODIES

Chapter 4. Survival Within A Multi-Circuited Maze: Latin American Sex Workers In Spain
Laura Oso

Chapter 5. Mobility through the Sexual Economy: Exchanging Sexual Capital for Respectability in Mozambican Women's Marriage Migration to Europe
Christian Groes

Chapter 6. Fluid Sexualities Beyond Sex Work and Marriage: Thai Migrants' Racialized Gender Performance in Copenhagen
Marlene Spanger

PART III: MORALITIES OF MONEY, MOBILITY AND INTIMACY

Chapter 7. From Programas to Help and Marriage: Transnational Sexual, Economic and Affective Exchanges among Brazilian Women
Adriana Piscitelli

Chapter 8. True Love and Cunning Love: Negotiating Intimacy, Deception and Belonging in Touristic Cuba
Valerio Simoni

Chapter 9. The Masculine and Moral Self: Migration Narratives of Cuban Husbands in Scandinavia
Nadine T. Fernandez

Index