Making trust across a continent: Transnational marriages between Indonesian women and Turkish men in the Black Sea region

Abstract

The rapid advancements in communication and transportation facilities have facilitated unexpected encounters between peoble and cultures from diverse origins. People of different countries and nationalities encounter each other in global metropolitan cities or in the transit zones of global migration. With globalization, it is common for multiple trans-localities, cross-border spaces, and intercultural encounters to emerge in the frontier towns or metropolitan cities of a country. However, such encounters are uncommon in rural localities that are far from transit zones and lack the facilities of metropolitan cities. This study focuses on transnational marriage cases in a rural locality where the intensity of transnational migrations or cross-border mobilization is not intense. Intriguingly, the transnational marriages between Indonesian women and Turkish men from Giresun, a small city in the Black Sea region, mark important insights into this global interconnectedness and its reflections on local practies…