Download or read book Asian Cross border Marriage Migration written by Wen-Shan Yang and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues is an interdisciplinary and comparative study on the rapid increase of the intra-Asia flow of cross-border marriage migration. This book contains in-depth research conducted by scholars in the fields of demography, sociology, anthropology and pedagogy, including demographic studies based on large-scale surveys on migration and marital patterns as well as micro case studies on migrants%7Bu2019%7D liv%7Bu00AD%7Ding experiences and strategies. Together these papers examine and challenge the existing assumptions in the immigration policies and popular discourse and lay the foundation for further comparative research." -- Back cover.
Download or read book Marriage Migration in Asia written by Sari K. Ishii and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men are disadvantaged in the marriage markets of many Asian countries, and in some cases their response is to look abroad for a partner. Receiving countries for marriage migrants include Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, while the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and parts of mainland China supply wives to these territories. In the absence of uniform international regulations concerning the rights and obligations of partners, such unions are treated differently in different jurisdiction. In extreme cases migrants or their children become stateless, and when marriages break down, migrants sometimes face major legal problems. In such circumstances, marriage migrants are often portrayed as powerless, uneducated victims. Rejecting this perspective, the authors in this volume explore the agency of women who migrate abroad to acquire opportunities unavailable to them in their homelands. They show that the trajectories of marriage migrants are often not a simple movement from home to destination but can involve return, repeated, or extended migrations, and that these transitions that can alter geographies of power in economics, nationality or ethnicity. Based on features shared by many marriage migrants, the book identifies them as an emerging minority at the frontier of the nation-state, a group whose status may well carry over to future generations.
Download or read book Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts written by Zheng Mu and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how Asian migrants adapt and assimilate into their host societies, and how this assimilation differs across their sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts. The diversities in Asian migrants' assimilation trajectories challenge the assumption that given time, migrants will eventually integrate holistically into their host societies. This book captures the diverse patterns and trajectories of assimilation by going beyond marriage migration to look at how family formation processes are shaped by migration driven by reasons other than marriage. Using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method analyses, not only does this book uncover the nuances of the link between marriage and migration, but it also widens methodological repertoires in research on marriage and migration. It also captures various social outcomes that may have been influenced by migration, including migrants' economic well-being, cultural assimilation, subjective well-being, and gender inequality vis-à-vis marriages. This book further embeds the studies in the Asian contexts by drawing on individual countries' unique policies relevant to cross-cultural marriages, the persistent impacts of extended families, the patriarchal traditions, and systems of religion and caste. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Download or read book Global Marriage written by Lucy Williams and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular imagination of marriage migration has been influenced by stories of marriage of convenience, of forced marriage, trafficking and of so-called mail-order brides. This book presents a uniquely global view of an expanding field that challenges these and other stereotypes of cross-border marriage.
Download or read book Marriage Migration Family and Citizenship in Asia written by Tuen Yi Chiu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the increasing global trend of cross-border marriage migration, this book offers timely theoretical and empirical insights into contemporary debates about migration and citizenship. Extant scholarship on marriage migration and citizenship have concentrated on East-West inter-cultural marriages and tended to approach citizenship as an individual-centred concept linked to the nation-state, thus fading the family into the background. Focusing on cross-border marriages within Asia, a region where collectivist and familistic values are still prevalent, this book points to the importance of going beyond the state-individual nexus to conceptualise and foreground the family as a strategic site where citizenship is mediated, negotiated and experienced. Through six critical and in-depth case studies on cross-border marriages between East, Southeast, and South Asia, this book reveals how nation-states mobilize patriarchal notions of the family for its citizenship project; how formal frameworks of citizenship structure the trajectory and circumstances of cross-border families; how the repercussions of marriage migrants' citizenship are experienced and negotiated across generations; and how the tensions between the individual, the family and the state are produced along gender, class, race/ethnic, religious, cultural, geographical and generational boundaries. Collectively, this book calls for a rethinking of citizenship from an individual-centred proposition to a family-level concept. Its wealth of case studies and examples make it an essential resource for students, academics and researchers of Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, Politics, International Development Studies and Asian Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
Download or read book International Marriages and Marital Citizenship written by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: international marriages of Southeast Asian women through the lens of citizenship -- PART I Contact paths and routes to family formation -- 1 Marriage migration as a pathway to citizenship: Filipina brides, economic security, and ideas of global hypergamy -- 2 Time-embedded marital citizenship: Thai migrant women and their mixed unions in Belgium -- PART II The politics of love and desire -- 3 Reconciling marital citizenship in Malaysia through activism: gender, motherhood, and belongingness -- 4 The 'mail-order bride' stigma: intermarried Filipino women and the Philippine public and political debates -- 5 Female migrant spouses as deserving subjects of rights: migrant women and Taiwan's gender-equal courtrooms -- PART III Settlement and multifaceted roles in a new land -- 6 Postcolonial desires, partial citizenship, and transnational 'un-mothers': contexts and lives of Filipina marriage migrants in Japan -- 7 Stigmatized love, boundary-making, and the heroic love myth: Filipina women constructing relationships with US military men within and beyond the legal framework -- 8 She cares because she is a mother: the intersection of citizenship and motherhood of Southeast Asian immigrant women in Taiwan -- 9 A two-step social integration model for transnational marriage migrants in Taiwan and South Korea: 'marital family first, host society second' -- Conclusion: making sense of international marriages -- Index
Download or read book Cross border Marriages written by Nicole Constable and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrait de la couverture : "Border.crossing marriages are significant for what they reveal about the intersection of local and global processes in the everyday lives of women and men whose marital opportunities variably yield both rich possibilities and bitter disapointments. Illuminating how international marriages are negociated, arranges, and experienced, [this document] is the first book to chart marital migrations involving women and men of diverse national, ethnic, and class backgrounds. The migrations studied here cross geographical borders of proviinces, rural-urban borders within nation-states, and international boundaries, including those of China, Japan, [...]. Looking at assumptions about the connection between international marriages and poverty, opportunism, and women's mobility, the book draws attention to ideas about global patterns of inequality that are thought to pressure poor women to emigrate to richer countries, while simultaneously suggesting the limitations of such views."
Download or read book The Politics of International Marriage in Japan written by Viktoriya Kim and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth exploration and analysis of marriages between Japanese nationals and migrants from three broad ethnic/cultural groups - spouses from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries. It reveals how the marriage migrants navigate the intricacies and trajectories of their marriages with Japanese people while living in Japan. Seen from the lens of ‘gendered geographies of power’, the book explores how state-level politics and policies towards marriage, migration, and gender affect the personal power politics in operation within the relationships of these international couples. Overall, the book discusses how ethnic identity intersects with gender in the negotiation of spaces and power relations between and amongst couples; and the role states and structural inequalities play in these processes, resulting in a reconfiguration of our notions of what international marriages are and how powerful gender and the state are in understanding the power relations in these unions.
Download or read book Wife or Worker written by Nicola Piper and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship and how migrants for marriage become workers, the authors present these modern Asian women in their multidimensional roles as wives, workers, mothers, and citizens.
Download or read book The Book of Yokai written by Michael Dylan Foster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. In this delightful and accessible narrative, readers will explore the roles played by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and will also learn of their abundance and variety through detailed entries, some with original illustrations, on more than fifty individual creatures. The Book of Yokai provides a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence on global popular culture. It also invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them. By exploring yokai as a concept, we can better understand broader processes of tradition, innovation, storytelling, and individual and communal creativity. Ê
Download or read book Marriage Migrants of Japanese Women in Australia written by Takeshi Hamano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the experience of Japanese women who have immigrated to Australia through marriage to a local partner. Based on long-term participant observations gathered with a Japanese ethnic association in Sydney, and on in-depth interviews with the association’s members, it examines the ways in which the women remould themselves in Australia by constructing gendered selves that reflect their unique migratory circumstances through cross-border marriage. In turn, the book argues that the women tend to embrace expressions of Japanese femininity that they once viewed negatively, and that this is due to their lack of social skills and access to the cultural capital of mainstream Australian society. Re-molding the self through conventional Japanese notions of gender ironically provides them with a convincing identity: that of minority migrant women. Nevertheless, by analyzing these women’s engagement with a Japanese ethnic association in a suburb of Sydney, the book also reveals a nuanced sense of ambivalence; a tension between the women’s Japanese community and their lives in Australia. Accordingly, the book provides a fresh perspective on interdisciplinary issues of gender and migration in a globalized world, and engages with a wide range of academic disciplines including: sociology of migration; sociology of culture; cultural anthropology; cultural studies; Japanese studies; Asian studies; gender studies; family studies; migration studies and qualitative methodologies.
Download or read book Cross border Marriages and Mobility written by Avital Binah-Pollak and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Cross-border Marriages and Mobility: Female Chinese Migrants and Hong Kong Men* focuses on cross-border marriages between mainland Chinese women and Hong Kong men, a phenomenon which is of critical importance to the transformation of Hong Kong. By examining the women's motivations for migration and lived experiences in relation to the discursive, political, economic, and social circumstances of mainland China and Hong Kong, Avital Binah-Pollak demonstrates how these marital practices are causing the expanding and blurring of borders, so that there is a much wider strip of border in which the dichotomies of the rural/urban, periphery/center, and hybrid/national identities become more complex and negotiable. While this is particularly interesting and valid in the case of the border between mainland China and Hong Kong because of the particular nature of the relationship between these two societies, it may also apply to borders between many other societies worldwide.
Download or read book Cross Border Marriages written by Apostolos Andrikopoulos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the 'good and legitimate citizens' and the 'acceptable family'. In Europe, cross-border marriages have been the target of increasing state controls, an issue of public concern and the object of scholarly research. The study of cross-border marriages and the ways these marriages are framed is inevitably affected by states' concerns and priorities. There is a need for a reflexive assessment of how the categories employed by state institutions and agents have impacted the study of cross-border marriages. This collection of essays analyses what is at stake in the regulation of cross-border marriages and how European states use particular categories (e.g., 'sham', 'forced' and 'mixed' marriages) to differentiate between acceptable and non-acceptable marriages. When researchers use these categories unreflexively, they risk reproducing nation-centred epistemologies and reinforcing state-informed hierarchies and forms of exclusion. The chapters in this book offer new insights into a timely topic and suggest ways to avoid these pitfalls: differentiating between categories of analysis and categories of practice, adopting methodologies that do not mirror nation-states' logic and engaging with general social theory outside migration studies. This book will be of interest to researchers and academics of Sociology, Politics, International Relations, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Human Geography, Social Work, and Public Policy. Barring one, all the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Download or read book Cross border Marriages with Asian Characteristics written by Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of Marriage Migration written by Kit-Mui Juanita Ho and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Stories of Marriage Migration: Identity Negotiation of Chinese Immigrant Women in Hong Kong" by Kit-mui, Juanita, Ho, 何潔梅, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled "Stories of Marriage Migration: Identity Negotiation of Chinese Immigrant Women in Hong Kong" Submitted by Ho, Kit Mui Juanita for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong in April 2006 The phenomenon of cross-border marriages between Hong Kong men and Mainland women has become one of the most influential factors impacting the family structure in Hong Kong. Due to the immigration policy, the Mainland wives need to wait for five to seven years before they are granted the permit for family reunion. This unique form of marriage migration makes a good case for studying how Mainland women make meaning of the cross-border marriage, the separated family life and the subsequent reunion in Hong Kong. This study, guided by symbolic interactionism, gender and narrative perspectives, examines the subjective experiences of Chinese immigrant women through their journey of marriage migration. Its central focus is on the ways in which they dealt with the challenges they encountered during settlement, and how they negotiated their gender and ethnic identities in the new socio-cultural environment. In-depth interviews were conducted with thirty-two Chinese immigrant women, and qualitative analysis was used to analyze the narratives. Analysis shows that the meanings of marriage constructed by Chinese immigrant women shaped their marital expectations. Despite long years of spousal separation, they employed various strategies to maintain marital and family stability. The marriage migration brought about family reunification, but also revealed multiple challenges. Immigrant women who were able to develop positive beliefs about adversity, functional coping strategies and access to social support demonstrated resilience in the process of adaptation. Chinese immigrant women negotiated their gender role orientation in response to changes in their economic and social participation. Constant struggles over subservience and empowerment were revealed through women's narratives. Besides, themes of social integration and social isolation were prominent in immigrant women's interpretation of their ethnic identification and their new social positions in relation to others. This study contributes to the construction of a process model of Chinese marriage migration and enriches understanding of the dynamic nature of identity negotiation. A typology of immigrant women emerges through the identification of meta-narratives in the dimensions of gender role orientation, social integration, and resilience. The six narrative identities - the integrated, the resilient, the self-actualized, the subservient, the marginalized, and the welfare-dependent - inform how Chinese immigrant women respond to various life challenges and dilemmas in the migration process. The study illustrates the influence of cultures on immigrant women's meaning making and accentuates the importance for social workers to maintain a multicultural orientation. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3571598 Subjects: Identity (Psychology) Women immigrants - China - Hong Kong Marriage - China - Hong Kong
Download or read book Migrant Encounters written by Sara L. Friedman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia encounter the restrictions and opportunities presented by state actors and policies. Contributions draw on original ethnographic work foregrounding migrants' intimate lives to argue that such encounters unpredictably transform migrants and the states between which they move.
Download or read book Thai Western Mobilities and Migration written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
