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Marriage, migration and gender /
This is the final volume in the five volume series on Women and Migration in Asia. The articles in this volume bring a gender-sensitive perspective to bear on aspects of marriage and migration in intra- and transnational contexts. In particular, they consider: a) how, given specific rules of marriag...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2008.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Women and migration in Asia ;
v. 5. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Exploring the links: gender issues in marriage and migration / Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Uberoi
- Marriage as migration
- Marriage migration in China: the enlargement of marriage markets in the era of market reforms / Delia Davin
- Bridal diaspora: migration and marriage among Filipino women / Teresita C. Del Rosario
- "America Varan": marriages among the Tamil Brahmins: preferences, strategies and outcomes / U. Kalpagam
- Brokering marriage
- Commercially arranged marriage migration: case studies of cross-border marriages in Taiwan / Melody Chia-wen Lu
- Bangladeshi girls sold as wives in North India / Thérèse Blanchet
- Unorthodox sisters: gender relations and generational change among Malayali migrants in Italy / Ester Gallo
- Marriage transactions and transnational contexts
- Marriage, money and gender: a case study of the migrant Indian community in Canada / Ranjana Sheel
- Gender, dowry and the migration system of Indian information technology professionals / Xiang Biao
- The strains of marriage migration
- Vulnerable brides and transnational ghar damads: gender, risk and "adjustment" among Pakistani marriage migrants to Britain / Katharine Charsley
- Marriage and migration through the life course: experiences of widowhood, separation and divorce amongst transnational Sikh women / Kanwal Mand
- Domestic violence and the Indian diaspora in the United States / Margaret Abraham
- Child custody cases in the context of international migration / Kirti Singh
- About the editors and contributors
- Index.