Gendered Struggles over Residency Rights when Turkish Immigrant Marriages Break up

<p>Transnational marriages &ndash; where immigrant offspring marry spouses from their parents&rsquo; country of origin &ndash; have been common across Europe. If such marriages end in divorce before a given probationary period is over, the marriage migrant spouses may have to leave...

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Main Author: Anika Liversage
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Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2013-12-01
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Online Access:http://ssrn.com/abstract=2356981
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spelling doaj-1ba015058bd94de8b3a71a21c17882ad2020-11-24T20:57:43ZengOñati International Institute for the Sociology of LawOñati Socio-Legal Series2079-59712013-12-013610701090234Gendered Struggles over Residency Rights when Turkish Immigrant Marriages Break upAnika Liversage0Danish National Centre for Social Research<p>Transnational marriages &ndash; where immigrant offspring marry spouses from their parents&rsquo; country of origin &ndash; have been common across Europe. If such marriages end in divorce before a given probationary period is over, the marriage migrant spouses may have to leave Europe again, a fact which affects the power balance in such marriages in their first years. Combining quantitative and qualitative data on divorces in Turkish transnational marriages in Denmark, this article sheds light on the interaction between gender and power in such cases of marital break-up. The statistics show that of the app. 9300 Turkish couples who married transnationally in the 1980s and 1990, around 2000 marriages ended in divorce, and app. 450-500 divorced individuals subsequently left Denmark.</p><p>Interviews with divorced Turkish men and women document that gender strongly affects the power of the sponsoring spouse: While sponsoring men may act with great audacity in expelling quite powerless marriage migrant wives, sponsoring women can also seek to expel unwanted husbands. However, women may do so with greater caution and may more often have to rely on support from Danish state institutions. Furthermore, family relations &ndash; especially with the parental generation &ndash; may partially counteract the very weak positions of the marriage migrant wives.</p> <hr /><p>Los matrimonios transnacionales -donde descendientes de inmigrantes se casan con c&oacute;nyuges del pa&iacute;s de origen de sus padres- han sido comunes en toda Europa. Si tales matrimonios terminan en divorcio antes de que concluya el per&iacute;odo de prueba, los c&oacute;nyuges emigrantes esposados pueden tener que dejar Europa una vez m&aacute;s, un hecho que afecta al equilibrio de poder de esos matrimonios en sus primeros a&ntilde;os. Combinando datos cuantitativos y cualitativos sobre divorcios de matrimonios transnacionales turcos en Dinamarca, este art&iacute;culo arroja luz sobre la interacci&oacute;n entre el g&eacute;nero y el poder en los casos de ruptura conyugal. Las estad&iacute;sticas muestran que de aproximadamente 9.300 parejas turcas transnacionales casadas entre los a&ntilde;os 1980 y 1990, alrededor de 2.000 matrimonios terminaron en divorcio, y aproximadamente 450-500 personas divorciadas abandonaron Dinamarca posteriormente.</p> <p>Las entrevistas con hombres y mujeres turcas divorciadas documentan que el g&eacute;nero influye mucho en el poder del c&oacute;nyuge patrocinador: mientras que los hombres patrocinadores pueden actuar con gran audacia en la expulsi&oacute;n de las mujeres emigrantes casadas bastante indefensas, las mujeres que patrocinan tambi&eacute;n pueden tratar de expulsar a los maridos no deseados. Sin embargo, las mujeres pueden hacerlo con mayor cautela y a menudo pueden tener que confiar en el apoyo de las instituciones estatales danesas. Por otra parte, las relaciones familiares -especialmente con la generaci&oacute;n de sus padres- puede contrarrestar parcialmente la muy d&eacute;bil posici&oacute;n de las mujeres emigrantes casadas.http://ssrn.com/abstract=2356981Turkish immigrantsMarriage migrationGender and powerMarital conflictsDivorceTransnational social spacesInmigrantes turcosmatrimonios de emigracióngénero y poderconflictos matrimonialesdivorcioespacios sociales transnacionales
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Gendered Struggles over Residency Rights when Turkish Immigrant Marriages Break up
Oñati Socio-Legal Series
Turkish immigrants
Marriage migration
Gender and power
Marital conflicts
Divorce
Transnational social spaces
Inmigrantes turcos
matrimonios de emigración
género y poder
conflictos matrimoniales
divorcio
espacios sociales transnacionales
author_facet Anika Liversage
author_sort Anika Liversage
title Gendered Struggles over Residency Rights when Turkish Immigrant Marriages Break up
title_short Gendered Struggles over Residency Rights when Turkish Immigrant Marriages Break up
title_full Gendered Struggles over Residency Rights when Turkish Immigrant Marriages Break up
title_fullStr Gendered Struggles over Residency Rights when Turkish Immigrant Marriages Break up
title_full_unstemmed Gendered Struggles over Residency Rights when Turkish Immigrant Marriages Break up
title_sort gendered struggles over residency rights when turkish immigrant marriages break up
publisher Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
series Oñati Socio-Legal Series
issn 2079-5971
publishDate 2013-12-01
description <p>Transnational marriages &ndash; where immigrant offspring marry spouses from their parents&rsquo; country of origin &ndash; have been common across Europe. If such marriages end in divorce before a given probationary period is over, the marriage migrant spouses may have to leave Europe again, a fact which affects the power balance in such marriages in their first years. Combining quantitative and qualitative data on divorces in Turkish transnational marriages in Denmark, this article sheds light on the interaction between gender and power in such cases of marital break-up. The statistics show that of the app. 9300 Turkish couples who married transnationally in the 1980s and 1990, around 2000 marriages ended in divorce, and app. 450-500 divorced individuals subsequently left Denmark.</p><p>Interviews with divorced Turkish men and women document that gender strongly affects the power of the sponsoring spouse: While sponsoring men may act with great audacity in expelling quite powerless marriage migrant wives, sponsoring women can also seek to expel unwanted husbands. However, women may do so with greater caution and may more often have to rely on support from Danish state institutions. Furthermore, family relations &ndash; especially with the parental generation &ndash; may partially counteract the very weak positions of the marriage migrant wives.</p> <hr /><p>Los matrimonios transnacionales -donde descendientes de inmigrantes se casan con c&oacute;nyuges del pa&iacute;s de origen de sus padres- han sido comunes en toda Europa. Si tales matrimonios terminan en divorcio antes de que concluya el per&iacute;odo de prueba, los c&oacute;nyuges emigrantes esposados pueden tener que dejar Europa una vez m&aacute;s, un hecho que afecta al equilibrio de poder de esos matrimonios en sus primeros a&ntilde;os. Combinando datos cuantitativos y cualitativos sobre divorcios de matrimonios transnacionales turcos en Dinamarca, este art&iacute;culo arroja luz sobre la interacci&oacute;n entre el g&eacute;nero y el poder en los casos de ruptura conyugal. Las estad&iacute;sticas muestran que de aproximadamente 9.300 parejas turcas transnacionales casadas entre los a&ntilde;os 1980 y 1990, alrededor de 2.000 matrimonios terminaron en divorcio, y aproximadamente 450-500 personas divorciadas abandonaron Dinamarca posteriormente.</p> <p>Las entrevistas con hombres y mujeres turcas divorciadas documentan que el g&eacute;nero influye mucho en el poder del c&oacute;nyuge patrocinador: mientras que los hombres patrocinadores pueden actuar con gran audacia en la expulsi&oacute;n de las mujeres emigrantes casadas bastante indefensas, las mujeres que patrocinan tambi&eacute;n pueden tratar de expulsar a los maridos no deseados. Sin embargo, las mujeres pueden hacerlo con mayor cautela y a menudo pueden tener que confiar en el apoyo de las instituciones estatales danesas. Por otra parte, las relaciones familiares -especialmente con la generaci&oacute;n de sus padres- puede contrarrestar parcialmente la muy d&eacute;bil posici&oacute;n de las mujeres emigrantes casadas.
topic Turkish immigrants
Marriage migration
Gender and power
Marital conflicts
Divorce
Transnational social spaces
Inmigrantes turcos
matrimonios de emigración
género y poder
conflictos matrimoniales
divorcio
espacios sociales transnacionales
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