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Loving Attachment: Regulating Danish Love Migration (LOVA)
The unfolding European migration crises illustrates the urgent need for new conceptualizations and discursive frameworks to qualify our understandings of how and to what effect different forms of migration are conceptually and politically governed. The LOVA collective research project investigates the ways in which the psychological and juridical concepts of attachment have come to regulate Danish love migration. LOVA is structured around four individual and two collaborative projects, which provide synergic, interdisciplinary perspectives on how the concept of attachment governs love migration. In everyday use, the developmental psychological concept of attachment (‘tilknytning’) denotes an individual’s capacity to form social bonds. Over the past 15 years, however, Danish migration legislation has operationalized the concept of attachment as a means of governing types of migration commonly understood as involving relationships of love: i.e. family reunification, transnational adoption, and transnational migration marriages.
Projektet har i 2016 opnået bevilling fra Det Frie Forskningsråd | Kultur og Kommunikation til DFF-Forskningsprojekt 2.
