Doing intimacy differently: Couples Living Apart Together Transnationally

This GDA focuses on the relationship dynamics of couples living apart across
nations but still intimately together, primarily for job or educational reasons,
based on an empirical study. It fills a gap in the scholarship as there is limited
research on this topic, even as the number of committed couples living apart
increases due to globalisation and the forces of capitalism. Given that migration
and mobility of couples are not likely to come to an end with the pandemic, a
nuanced and critical analysis of digital technology use for relationship
maintenance, at times across the Global North and the Global South, is
covered. Moreover, the consequences of restrictive migratory regimes and
spirituality for the meaning-making of this unconventional form of intimacy are
also touched on, which challenge existing Eurocentric conceptualisations of
intimacy and relationships.