Cross-border Intimacies is a powerful account of the experiences of migrant women and their families between China and Taiwan. Since the early 1990s, economic exchanges between the two countries have paved the way to migration and sociocultural interaction across a previously closed border.
But the unresolved issue of Taiwanese sovereignty has tainted not only the relations between the two governments, but the everyday lives of those who have moved across the Taiwan Strait. In this politicised environment, intimate and affective practices linked to cross-border marriage and family-making is never private. This study, filled with rich, longitudinal ethnographic data, offers a complex picture of what it means to be a mainland spouse in Taiwan on a personal and national level.
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