H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

RE-NUP · Spousal Reunification and Integration Laws in Europe

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-05-15 → 2022-05-14
Финансиране от ЕС: 183 473 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-CAR

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Накратко на български

Законите за визи за съпрузи в Европа се анализират чрез примери с имигранти от Южна Азия и изискванията за езикова подготовка. Това помага да се разбере как административните правила влияят върху семейното обединяване и културната интеграция.

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Резултати накратко

Spousal Reunification and Integration Laws in Europe

This project studied legal procedures adopted by European states to evaluate applications for spousal visas, paying particular attention to how South Asian immigrants negotiated integration laws that are rigorously enforced in cases of family unification. The study looks at the states’ assessment of marital relations that appear contrary to European norms, abstractly defined, and at the implementation of the integration policies that often end up acting as gatekeeping instruments (especially through rules such as the pre-departure language examinations). The ethnographic study conducted as part of RE-NUP reveals that immigrants interpreted language and cultural orientation requirements in diverse ways, either adapting them for their future goals or aspiring to them when opportunities for language acquisition were not available to them. Host societies, in turn, also struggle to embrace their own contemporary identities as global and diverse. The researcher is currently evolving an anthropological approach to cultural integration and intercultural competence training that pertains to both the aspirations of the immigrants and that of host societies. The overarching objective for the data collection process was to pay attention to individual aspirations, journeys, and negotiations of spouses and family members in diasporic settings rather than on group identity challenges. The specific objectives included: 1. Delineating the ways in which marriage migration and integration processes are gendered. 2. Locating factors that influence visa and residence permit decisions, including knowledge of customary and kinship norms. 3. Connecting the fields of cultural integration and intercultural training. On a theoretical level, the scholar argues that partner preferences and socio-economic transformations are in a dialectical relationship wherein greater freedom to choose sexual partners reflects not just better access to rights and a more inclusive society, but also reveal the central role played by the institution in either reinforcing or weakening social hierarchies. Ethnographic data from this project reveals the existence of and ability to exercise the right to choose and live with a partner of one’s choice work as a measure of legal and political freedoms and the states’ commitment to fostering inclusivity and equity.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

RE-NUP will study the implementation of integration laws in three Europeans countries through the perspective of their primary target groups (spousal visa applicants) as well as the nature and scope of the mandatory education acquired as part of integration requirements. While immigration laws have been a topic of substantial academic interest, the modes through which immigrants themselves negotiate integration laws and its rigorous application in reunification cases continue to be under-represented. In my previous publications on the interface between the institution of marriage and legal spaces in North India, I have proposed a reconceptualization of the state where sexual subjectivity is not only a source of marginality and vulnerability, as often perceived in scholarly literature, but also an aspirational goal for some. RE-NUP will develop on this reflection further to understand how laws influence and are, in turn, shaped by the divergent ways in which the institution of marriage is defined and practiced in South Asia and Europe. Through ethnographic research among Indian and Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, I will study how marital ties are forged through an interface with transnational state agencies that determine the validity of marriages while assessing visa/permit applications. How do European states classify and evaluate marital ties across cultural frameworks? Does the concept of cultural expertise facilitate the process of translating cultural norms? This fellowship will give me an opportunity to undertake specialized training in the field of cultural expertise, combine research with applied work, and extend my competencies in project development, diversity management and intercultural education through an intersectoral secondment and training on transferable skills offered at UNIVE. I will develop an anthropological approach to intercultural training, which is currently missing in the state-of-the-art, and build my career as an independent consultant.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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