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Repressive autonomy. Discourses on and surveillance of marriage migration from Turkey to Austria

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  • Sabine Strasser

    (Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland)

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Transnational marriages and family reunification have recently been assessed as two of the main obstacles to integration in Austria. They have been increasingly problema-tized and kept under surveillance when partners from third countries – in Austria, particularly from Turkey – have been involved. Nonetheless, a great number of Turk-ish migrants and their descendants prefer to marry partners from their “country of origin”. In this paper I discuss practices of and discourses on family formation across borders, based on ethnographic fieldwork in a small town in Austria. My findings show that transnational marriages in Austria are often conflated with forced and ficti-tious marriages and consequently rejected as fraudulent or “violence in the name of tradition”. Furthermore, legal provisions against problematic marriages do not liberate women but repress their autonomy.

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  • Sabine Strasser, 2014. "Repressive autonomy. Discourses on and surveillance of marriage migration from Turkey to Austria," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 11(3), pages 316-328, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:11:y:2014:i:3:p:316-328
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