Aspirational intimacy in visiting friends and relatives
本文质疑探亲访友旅游研究中以家庭为中心和规范性的假设，通过多地点民族志访谈，提出“渴望亲密”概念，揭示移民如何通过不同方式维持远距离关系，追求正常感和归属感。
Tourism research on visiting friends and relatives remains normative and family-centric. The literature has yet to question the normative underpinnings of relationships and remains oriented around physical proximity. This paper therefore aims to understand the shifting qualities and intimacies of migrant personal relationships developed across diverse means for maintaining relationships. It draws from a multi-sited ethnography that includes interviews from migrants and friends and family living at a distance. Framed through theory on personal relationships and affect, we introduce the concept ‘aspirational intimacy’. This shows how important relationships become oriented around aspirations of normalcy and belonging that construct shared capacities to feel connected, while imagining alternative possibilities for relationships and life-course trajectories.