A01=Lara Momesso
Affect theory
Author_Lara Momesso
Category=JBFH
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East Asia
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Family migration
global south
intimacy
Marriage migration
Politics of emotion
Taiwan and China
Taiwanese sovereignty
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- ISBN 9781526189530
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the early 1990s, economic exchanges between China and Taiwan have paved the way to migration across a previously closed border and to social and cultural interactions between the two populations. Despite these broader changes, the unresolved issue of Taiwan sovereignty has tainted not only the relations between the two governments but also the everyday life of those who move across the Taiwan Strait. In this politicised environment, intimate and affective practices linked to cross-border marriage and family formation are never just private. Instead, they are deeply entangled with the emotional and affective processes generated at the macro and meso level of political and social life and revolving around national interests. Tracing the intimate, emotional and affective practices linked to family creation, identity formation and integration with the local and national communities, this ethnographic study offers a subjective, dynamic, and complex picture of what it means to be a mainland spouse in Taiwan.
Lara Momesso is Associate Research Fellow of the Institute for Area and Migration Studies at the University of Lancashire.
Lara founded and Co-Directed the Northern Institute of Taiwan Studies and the Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile at the University of Lancashire. She is Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS (the University of London) and Associate Fellow at the European Research Centre of Contemporary Taiwan (University of Tuebingen). She also is Editor-in-Chief of the peer reviewed journal Asia Pacific Viewpoint.
