Date Tuesday 20 November 2018 •
Time: 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Venue: CRFR Meeting Room, 23 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LN
Speaker Kaveri Qureshi who will be speaking on
Migration and remarriage between Pakistan and Britain
Abstract : The last decade has seen legislation restricting marriage-related immigration introduced across Western Europe, including Britain. In the surrounding debates, marriage migration is often pathologized as bad for integration and as a channel for ‘sham’ marriages, while women’s organisations and migrant rights campaigners point to the vulnerability of migrant spouses during increasingly long probationary visa periods. Kaveri Quershi’s research on transnational marriages brings new evidence to these debates. Previous research has often failed to differentiate first and second marriages. Qureshi analyses marriage migration while making this distinction. She has conducted a study of marital breakdown in family circuits connecting Pakistan and Britain – a large and historically-established stream of marriage-related immigration. She considers the instabilities of transnational remarriages drawing on the idea of ‘gendered geographies of power’ (Mahler and Pressar 2001) which recognizes how gender relations organize migration. The qualitative data on remarriage suggests a retreat from the predominance of transnational marriage in first marriages; she also identifies pockets of chain divorces and transnational marriage.
CRFR informal seminars are FREE but booking is essential. To register please email: crfr.events@ed.ac.uk (CRFR reserves the right to charge a £5 cancellation fee if a booking is made but the delegate fails to appear)