LEADER 03694nam 22006495 450 001 9910786360203321 005 20210722014512.0 010 $a0-8147-2492-2 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814724927 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276390 035 $a(EBL)1057778 035 $a(OCoLC)818818800 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000830936 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11511993 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000830936 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10821488 035 $a(PQKB)10221583 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326257 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1057778 035 $a(OCoLC)823743097 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19238 035 $a(DE-B1597)548392 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814724927 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276390 100 $a20200608h20122012 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLove and Empire $eCybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas /$fFelicity Amaya Schaeffer 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2012] 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 0 $aNation of Nations ;$v11 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-5947-5 311 0 $a0-8147-8598-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-217) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Intimate Investments --$t1. Enforcing Romantic Love through Immigration Law --$t2. Conversions of the Self --$t3. Outsourcing the American Dream --$t4. Bodies for Export! --$t5. Migrant Critique --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThe spread of the Internet is remaking marriage markets, altering the process of courtship and the geographic trajectory of intimacy in the 21st century. For some Latin American women and U.S. men, the advent of the cybermarriage industry offers new opportunities for re-making themselves and their futures, overthrowing the common narrative of trafficking and exploitation. In this engaging, stimulating virtual ethnography, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer follows couples? romantic interludes at ?Vacation Romance Tours,? in chat rooms, and interviews married couples in the United States in order to understand the commercialization of intimacy. While attending to the interplay between the everyday and the virtual, Love and Empire contextualizes personal desires within the changing global economic and political shifts across the Americas. By examining current immigration policies and the use of Mexican and Colombian women as erotic icons of the nation in the global marketplace, she forges new relations between intimate imaginaries and state policy in the making of new markets, finding that women?s erotic self-fashioning is the form through which women become ideal citizens, of both their home countries and in the United States. Through these little-explored, highly mediated romantic exchanges, Love and Empire unveils a fresh perspective on the continually evolving relationship between the U.S. and Latin America. 410 0$aNation of newcomers. 606 $aCitizenship$zAmerica 606 $aOnline dating$zAmerica 606 $aIntermarriage$zAmerica 615 0$aCitizenship 615 0$aOnline dating 615 0$aIntermarriage 676 $a306.845097 686 $aLC 17610$2rvk 700 $aSchaeffer$b Felicity Amaya$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01537548 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786360203321 996 $aLove and Empire$93786918 997 $aUNINA