Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states
and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about …

Enquiry into the factors which impact on 'integration'requires clarity on the nature of the
integration processes in which individuals are engaged, the intersection of those processes …

In Europe, polygamy is often portrayed as emblematic of unchanging patriarchal traditions
among Muslims. In contrast, based on research with Pakistanis in Britain and Turks in …

In both Denmark and Britain, legal and policy discourses have relied on a range of problems
implicitly or explicitly linked to transnational marriages involving ethnic minorities in order to …

Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has
been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan and the UK. Most transnational …

This article reports a decline in transnational marriages among Turkish Belgians between
2001 and 2008 and explains the changing trends through a qualitative study of Turkish …

The remit of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life series is to publish
major texts, monographs and edited collections focusing broadly on the sociological …

Taking as its case the Danish “attachment requirement”(2000–2018), this article examines
the way in which the biopolitical management of marriage migration has come to take the …

In both policy and academic debates in Britain, as elsewhere in Europe, concern is
increasingly expressed over the implications of spousal immigration for 'integration' …

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 …