Alternative spatial hierarchies: a cross-border spouse's positioning strategies in the face of Germany's 'pre-integration' language test.
This paper examines how spouses waiting in Turkey to be reunited with their partner in Europe experience border regimes and deal with the transnationalised discourses on 'marriage migrants' they encounter. It is based on the analysis of a single narrative interview, that of a woman taking German cla...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 413 - 430 |
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