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Alteridade e aliança: Paisagem matrimonial transatlântica
- Source :
- Latin American Research Review, Vol 55, Iss 4 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020.
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Abstract
- Marriages between people from different countries tend to be organized according to preferential geographies and form distinctive “marriagescapes,” such as the one that takes shape in the Euro-Brazilian transatlantic space, the focus of this article. In this context, marital arrangements with a particular gender-nationality structure prevail (European men and Brazilian women), from which spatial and culturally extensive alliance configurations emerge, based on an exogamy that crosses political, social, and identity boundaries. Diversified and distended, this marriagescape combines multiple axes of alterity: nationality, sexuality, gender, “race,” ethnicity, class. More than cleavage factors, the demarcations inscribed in this heterogamic pattern function as attraction inducing, involving the articulation of diverse desires. The differences and inequalities inherent to the European-Brazilian marriages tend to give rise to the idea that the Brazilian women will be the major beneficiary from the establishment of transnational alliance bonds. However, this female hypergamy can be hindered, particularly when matrimony involves migration to Europe. Resumo Os casamentos entre pessoas de diferentes paises tendem a organizar-se segundo geografias preferenciais e constituem paisagens conjugais distintivas, como a que ganha forma no espaco transatlântico euro-brasileiro de que o presente artigo da conta. Neste contexto predominam os arranjos matrimoniais com uma determinada estrutura de genero-nacionalidade (homens-europeus e mulheres-brasileiras), dos quais emergem configuracoes de alianca espacial e culturalmente extensivas, assentes numa exogamia que cruza fronteiras politicas, sociais e identitarias. Diversificada e distendida, esta paisagem conjugal articula multiplos eixos de alteridade: nacionalidade, sexualidade, genero, “raca”, etnicidade, classe. Mais do que fatores de clivagem, as demarcacoes inscritas neste padrao heterogâmico funcionam como indutoras de atracao, envolvendo a conjugacao de diversos desejos. As diferencas e desigualdades inerentes aos casamentos entre europeus e brasileiras tendem a suscitar a ideia de que as ultimas serao as maiores beneficiadas com a constituicao de vinculos de alianca transnacionais. Porem, esta hipergamia feminina pode ser obstada, sobretudo quando o matrimonio implica a migracao para a Europa.
- Subjects :
- Cultural Studies
lcsh:Latin America. Spanish America
History
Sociology and Political Science
Literature and Literary Theory
050204 development studies
Alterity
Geography, Planning and Development
Conta
Context (language use)
Development
lcsh:Social Sciences
0502 economics and business
050602 political science & public administration
Sociology
Multidisciplinary
biology
General Arts and Humanities
Exogamy
lcsh:F1201-3799
05 social sciences
Hypergamy
biology.organism_classification
0506 political science
lcsh:H
Alliance
Anthropology
Political Science and International Relations
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Humanities
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15424278 and 00238791
- Volume :
- 55
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Latin American Research Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9a60ff9bc23fdca26833c41fb3f49094