This Special Issue addresses the lacunas in two sets of related literature: one on divorces, in general, and the other on divorces in transnational families (also called in this Issue “transnational divorce”). Through “transborder intersectionality” (i.e., a combination of transnational and intersectional perspectives), it examines five empirically grounded case studies that analyze the experiences of transnational couples involving migrants from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. These case studies unveil the dominant elements and forces that shape the lives of the separating or divorced couples in their cross-border social spaces: norms (social and legal), networks (transnational family support and local social ties), and intersecting categories (gender, social class, and legal status among others).

The emotional, social, and economic challenges faced by migrants and their families are interconnected through complex decisions related to mobility. Tangled Mobilities examines the different crisscrossing and intersecting mobilities in the lives of Asian migrants, their family members across Asia and Europe, and the social spaces connecting these regions. It proposes the plural lens of "tangled mobilities" - a dynamic, unfolding process in which elements, components, and forms of mobility exist alongside, intersect wxith, and overlap one another in complex ways, resulting in stasis and movements across different life dimensions (social, legal, intimate, sexual, digital, and temporal). In exploring how the migratory process unfolds in different stages of migrants’ lives, the chapters in this collected volume broaden perspectives on mobility, offering insights into the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.