Governing belonging through attachment: marriage migration and transnational adoption in Denmark
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Governing belonging through attachment : marriage migration and transnational adoption in Denmark. / Bissenbakker, Mons; Myong, Lene.
In: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 45, No. 1, 31.01.2021, p. 133-152.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Governing belonging through attachment
T2 - marriage migration and transnational adoption in Denmark
AU - Bissenbakker, Mons
AU - Myong, Lene
PY - 2021/1/31
Y1 - 2021/1/31
N2 - Based on analysis of legal documents on family reunification and educational material concerning transnational adoption in Denmark, this article suggests that the concept of attachment may be conceptualized as a specific operationalization of belonging, and that belonging and biopower may be viewed as intertwined (rather than opposites). The analysis conceptualizes two modes of how belonging is operationalized through attachment. The belonging of families seeking reunification is targeted on a regulatory level via the legal requirement of national attachment. This requirement materializes as a prognosis of belonging in families seeking reunification. On a disciplinary level, psychological attachment discourse is utilized to address belonging in adoptive kinship. As a disciplinary instrument, psychological attachment discourse extracts affective labour from the adoptee in order to secure belonging in the form of psychological attachment, which serves to sustain the white adoptive family. In both cases, attachment discourse naturalizes the governing of belonging over time.
AB - Based on analysis of legal documents on family reunification and educational material concerning transnational adoption in Denmark, this article suggests that the concept of attachment may be conceptualized as a specific operationalization of belonging, and that belonging and biopower may be viewed as intertwined (rather than opposites). The analysis conceptualizes two modes of how belonging is operationalized through attachment. The belonging of families seeking reunification is targeted on a regulatory level via the legal requirement of national attachment. This requirement materializes as a prognosis of belonging in families seeking reunification. On a disciplinary level, psychological attachment discourse is utilized to address belonging in adoptive kinship. As a disciplinary instrument, psychological attachment discourse extracts affective labour from the adoptee in order to secure belonging in the form of psychological attachment, which serves to sustain the white adoptive family. In both cases, attachment discourse naturalizes the governing of belonging over time.
KW - affect
KW - assimilation
KW - Biopolitics
KW - integration
KW - kinship
KW - national attachment
KW - transnational adoption
KW - Attachment
KW - Love
KW - Biopolitics
KW - Faculty of Humanities
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2021.1876901
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2021.1876901
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85100297880
VL - 45
SP - 133
EP - 152
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
SN - 0141-9870
IS - 1
ER -
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