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Abstract
This paper brings together two of the key theoretical concepts attributed to Georg Simmel – the notion of the ‘stranger’ (the person who is not indigenous to a social context and perpetually seen as possibly not belonging) and ‘love’ as socially constructed which has the potential to turn an individual love into a notion of ‘super individual couplehood’ unifying two individuals and transforming them in the process. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with 35 people in ‘mixed’ couples, this paper examines how loving the stranger is constructed, maintained and challenged across cultures, languages, races, and nationalities.
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Biographical note
Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Associate Professor of Sociology, Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland. She is the lead author of Global Mixed Race (New York University Press) and sole author of Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (University of Minnesota Press) amongst other publications.
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