Glocal loves, transnational dating. The virtual search for a mixed partner by spanish men

  • Jordi Roca Girona Universidad Rovira i Virgili
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RASO.2011.v20.36269
Keywords: Mixed couples, cyberlove, commodification of intimacy, transnational dating, online love relationships

Abstract

This paper deals with the recent and growing phenomenon of heterosexual mixed couples between a Spanish man and a foreign woman. Many topics have been covered by the international scholarly literature, such as the motivations leading to the decision of searching for a couple of these characteristics, or the varied processes of negotiation encountered in the public and private space. Our contribution is based on one of the fundamental aspects of the reality of and important number of mixed couples: the virtual search for a transnational couple through romantic websites and specialized marriage agencies on the Internet, and the subsequent dating period on the virtual space. We discuss topics such as the commodification of intimacy and the novelties and continuities of loves in the cyberspace in relation to conventional dating.

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Jordi Roca Girona, Universidad Rovira i Virgili
Jordi Roca Girona es profesor titular y director del Departament d’Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona, donde coordina el doctorado en Antropología y el GIA. En 1995 fue Premio Nacional de Investigación Cultural Marqués de Lozoya. Estudia género, trabajo y empresa, relatos biográficos y metodología etnográfica, participando en diversos proyectos nacionales e internacionales. Desde 2006 es investigador principal de sendos proyectos sobre migraciones amorosas y parejas mixtas. Publicó entre otras obras: Vides de dona (1990, en col.); “Politique, Science et Droit naturel. Equisse d’une révolution dans la normativité familiale” (1995, en col.); De la pureza a la maternidad (1996); Antropología Industrial y de la Empresa (1998); “Industria petroquímica y nuclear, riesgo y globalización: el Camp de Tarragona” (2003); Etnografía (2004, en col.); “Relatar la vida, delatar la identidad” (2006); “Migrantes por amor. La búsqueda y formación de parejas transnacionales” (2007); Amor importado, migrantes por amor (2009, en col.); “Migraciones amorosas, migraciones (re)negadas” (2009); y “Quien lejos se va a casar… Migraciones (re)negadas” (2009).

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Roca Girona J. (2011). Glocal loves, transnational dating. The virtual search for a mixed partner by spanish men. Revista de Antropología Social, 20, 263-292. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RASO.2011.v20.36269
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Vol. 20 (2011): Investigación antropológica en España
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Monographic

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