Distant Love: Personal Life in the Global Age

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Introduction
1: Globalization of Love and Intimacy: The Rise of World Families
	1 Comedies and Tragedies of Distant Love
	2 The Landscape of World Families
	3 World Families Turn Established Notions Upside Down
	4 Towards a Definition of ‘World Families’
2: Two Countries, One Couple: Tales of Mutual Understanding and Misunderstanding
	1 Do ‘Mixed Relationships’ Differ from Others?
	2 Lives in Transition
	3 Decoding Intercultural Differences
	4 Rediscovering the Roots
3: Love Has Two Enemies: Distance and Closeness
	1 The Social Anatomy of Distant Love
	2 Lost in Translation
	3 Love, Marriage and Happiness: Multiplied, Divided, Inverted and Recombined
4: Cosmopolitan Communities of Fate
	1 Fresh Kidneys, or Global Inequality Embodied
	2 The Power of Capital
	3 Outsourcing Jobs
	4 Competing World Religions
	5 Climate Change: A Threat to Humanity
	6 Risk Communities as Imagined Communities
	7 The Cosmopolitanization of Everyday Life
5: Intimate Migrations: Women Marrying for a Better Life
	1 Dreams of Migration Versus Barriers to Migration
	2 Border Artists
	3 Commercial Matchmaking
	4 Matchmaking Via Transnational Family Networks
	5 Tragic Stories: Migrants as Victims
	6 More Tragic Stories: Migrants as Perpetrators
	7 What Future?
6: Love Displaced: Migrant Mothers
	1 A New Wave of Economic Migration
	2 Living in the Shadows
	3 Broken Care Chains
	4 Motherly Love and Other Emotions
	5 Asymmetrical Gains
7: Male Hegemony in Decline? Why Women Gain Power in World Families
	1 Geographies of Migration
	2 Strategies for Choosing a Partner
	3 Different Horizons
	4 Loss and Gain
8: Transnational Family Networks: Winners of Globalization?
	1 Are Transnational Family Enterprises Anachronistic?
	2 The Relationship between the Individual, the Family and the State
	3 What Binds World Families Together?
	4 Relation to Democracy
9: My Mother Was a Spanish Ovum: Baby Tourism and Global Patchwork Families
	1 Wanting a Child and Medical Technology
	2 Moral Issues: Contested Territory
	3 A New Diversity of Life Patterns
	4 Children as ‘Commodities’
	5 Designing Confidence
	6 The Global Patchwork Family
10: The Intimate is Global: The Model of Distant Love
	1 The Distant Other is in the Midst of Our Family
	2 Cross-Border Communication
	3 Global Inequality Acquires Names and Faces
	4 Beyond National Law
	5 Your Families, Our Families: Clashing Ideals
11: Are World Families Pioneers of Cosmopolitanism?
	1 Children of Postmodernity?
	2 The Multiple Memory
	3 Postscript from the Future: the Two Commissions on Love
References and Bibliography
Index