1st Edition
Situated Mixedness Understanding Migration-Related Intimate Diversity in Belgium
Introduction: Intimate diversity in Belgium through the optic of situated mixedness
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
Part 1. “Mixed” couples living the context(s) of regulations
1. Religious loss or religious spiritualisation? A qualitative study of “Christian-Muslim” couples in Belgium
Francesco Cerchiaro
2. Minimum income threshold and migrantised citizens: Second-class mixedness in the Belgian family reunification regime
Laura Odasso
3. Bureaucratic couples’ interviews as ordeals of desirability: Insights from Brussels
Maïté Maskens
4. Intimate mixedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Transnational couples experiencing the effects of travel restrictions
Jenthe Blockx
Part 2. Temporal unfolding of intimate diversity
5. Belgian-Asian conjugal mixedness in Belgium since 1992: A quantitative perspective
Lucas Monteil
6. Intimate diversity outside and within: Points of convergence of Belgian-Asian couples in Belgium
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot (in collaboration with Mimy Keomanichanh, Aaron Raphael Ponce, and Mari Kawase)
7. Rapture, rupture, reconstruction: Reflections on gay Asian migrant relationship experiences in Belgium
Aaron Raphael Ponce
8. Transnationally situated meanings regarding food consumption among Laotian-Belgian couples in Belgium
Mimy Keomanichanh
Conclusion: Rethinking conjugal mixedness and intimate diversity
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
Biography
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is a tenured Research Associate (chercheuse qualifiee) of the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and Senior Lecturer (maitresse d’enseignement) at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC) of the Universite libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. She has published widely in English and French including five co-edited Special Issues in peer-reviewed journals and three co-edited volumes. Her works include the volume Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration (co-edited with Liu-Farrer, 2022). She is principal investigator of the research projects BelMix (https://belmix .hypotheses .org/) focusing on the contextual mobility of Belgian-Asian couples and AspirE (https://aspire.ulb.be/) examining the decision-making of aspiring Asian (re-)migrants.
