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Regulating and resisting queer creativity: Community-engaged arts practice in the neoliberal city
Transnational marriages on the decline: explaining changing trends in partner choice among Turkish Belgians
This article reports a decline in transnational marriages among Turkish Belgians between 2001 and 2008 and explains the changing trends through a qualitative study of Turkish Belgiansâ current partner preferences and union formation practices. Young people prefer a local marriage because it enables upward social mobility, and the possibility of premarital relationships and lower parental involvement seem to further add to the declining popularity of transnational marriages. Despite these changes, however, a considerable percentage of people continues to marry a partner from the country of origin. By identifying four âtypesâ of transnational marriages we highlight the changes and diversification with regards to transnational marriages