RE-NUP: The Marie Curie Project

Spousal Reunification and Integration Laws in Europe

Artwork by Ranjitha Ramachandran

RE-NUP builds on my prior research on marriages based on love and choice in North India to investigate spousal reunification applications and procedures pursued in three European countries. While, for my PhD research, I had focused on elopement cases and the validity of the marriages that did not have community or family sanction, RE-NUP concerned itself with transnational marriages and visa applications filed by spouses from South Asia under the family unification laws of Germany, Italy, and France.

Integration policies, which include a broad set of obligatory and voluntary tests for immigrants on the language and culture of the host country, emerged as a major theme during the course of this project. I have since turned my attention to language and cultural integration in the European context.

RE-NUP: Spousal Reunification and Integration Laws in Europe received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 890826.

EURO-EXPERT/RE-NUP Events

As a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, I organized a virtual event series in association with Prof. Livia Holden and Joshua Bishay from the University of Paris Nanterre

As part of this series, we have invited scholars and practitioners who are engaged in the study of state and non-state processes where cultural expertise is deployed or has the potential to meaningfully inform governance and judicial practices. Our guest speakers include Prof. John Campbell (SOAS), Prof. Ajantha Subramanian (Harvard), Judge Victoria McCloud (UK), Prof. Sa'ed Atshan (Swarthmore), Dr. Gautam Bhan (IIHS, India), Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL), Prof. Julie Fraser (Utrecht), Judge Luciana Breggia (Italy), Dr. Pierpaolo di Carlo (SUNY Buffalo), Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL), Dr. James Rose (University of Melbourne). I have also organized a PhD Student Workshop in August 2021 in addition to this series.

For more information on past and forthcoming events, please check out this website: https://culturalexpertise.net/news/

From the RE-NUP Stable:

Publications

Being Indian, Becoming European: Personhood and Belonging in Marriage Migration Patterns in Europe. Journal of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale.
2023 Decolonization as an Instrument of Cultural Expertise, in Holden, L. Cultural Expertise, Law and Rights: A Comprehensive Guide. Routledge.
2022 Immigrant Researching versus Immigration Research (Part of a blog series initiated by the IMISCOE Standing Committee ‘Reflexivities in Migration Studies’ and the nccr–on the move.) https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/immigrant-researching-versus-immigration-research/
Familial Crisis and Marriage: Navigational Capacity of Aspiration, in Agrawal, A. Familial Fields: Studies from India . (peer-reviewed)
Articles on two films (Amar Akbar Anthony & Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), in Paul, H., Marak, S., K. Gerund, and M. Henderson. Lexicon of Global Melodrama. Transcript – Independent Academic Publishing.
Commentary in Indian Express

The Lure of Khalistan can be Located in Diaspora’s Search for a Homeland: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/amritpal-singh-khalistan-opinion-8552001/

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Invited Talks, Conferences

April 2024 Marriage on the Move: Immigration, Integration & the South Asian Diaspora, Educational Multimedia Research Centre, Punjabi University, Patiala, India.
Jan 2023 Love, Longing and Affective Attachments in the South Asian Diaspora. American Studies Research Colloquium. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Dec 2021 Marriage on the Move: Mobility and Aspirations Among South Asians in Europe. At the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Germany.
Nov 2021. Validating Marriages Across Cultures: Negotiating Multiple Normative Orders in Decision-Making Processes. Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures Programme. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Sept 2021 International conference titled, (Dis)connecting People? The Law and Practice of Family Reunification, Ghent University & University of Antwerp.
May 2021 Law and Society Association, New Books on South Asia panel. Presenting my 2020 book, Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India.
April 2021. Marriage, Mobility, and Notions of Belonging. IMISCOE Workshop on Norms and Values, Malmö University.
March 2021. Seminar Talk at Centre for History and Anthropology of Law, University of Paris Nanterre.
Feb 2021. Panellist on The State, Sex and Sexuality in South Asia session. The South Asia Legal Forum, University College of London.

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