03651nam 2200661Ia 450 991081845410332120200520144314.00-8147-2492-210.18574/9780814724927(CKB)2670000000276390(EBL)1057778(OCoLC)818818800(SSID)ssj0000830936(PQKBManifestationID)11511993(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000830936(PQKBWorkID)10821488(PQKB)10221583(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326257(MiAaPQ)EBC1057778(OCoLC)823743097(MdBmJHUP)muse19238(DE-B1597)548392(DE-B1597)9780814724927(EXLCZ)99267000000027639020120625d2012 uy 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrLove and empire cybermarriage and citizenship across the Americas /Felicity Amaya Schaeffer1st ed.New York New York University Pressc20121 online resource (240 p.)Nation of newcomersDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-5947-5 0-8147-8598-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-217) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: Intimate Investments --1. Enforcing Romantic Love through Immigration Law --2. Conversions of the Self --3. Outsourcing the American Dream --4. Bodies for Export! --5. Migrant Critique --Notes --References --Index --About the AuthorThe spread of the Internet is remaking marriage markets, altering the process of courtship and the geographic trajectory of intimacy in the 21st century. For some Latin American women and U.S. men, the advent of the cybermarriage industry offers new opportunities for re-making themselves and their futures, overthrowing the common narrative of trafficking and exploitation. In this engaging, stimulating virtual ethnography, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer follows couples’ romantic interludes at “Vacation Romance Tours,” in chat rooms, and interviews married couples in the United States in order to understand the commercialization of intimacy. While attending to the interplay between the everyday and the virtual, Love and Empire contextualizes personal desires within the changing global economic and political shifts across the Americas. By examining current immigration policies and the use of Mexican and Colombian women as erotic icons of the nation in the global marketplace, she forges new relations between intimate imaginaries and state policy in the making of new markets, finding that women’s erotic self-fashioning is the form through which women become ideal citizens, of both their home countries and in the United States. Through these little-explored, highly mediated romantic exchanges, Love and Empire unveils a fresh perspective on the continually evolving relationship between the U.S. and Latin America.Nation of newcomers.IntermarriageAmericaOnline datingAmericaCitizenshipAmericaIntermarriageOnline datingCitizenship306.845097LC 17610rvkSchaeffer Felicity Amaya1629342MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818454103321Love and Empire3967008UNINA