Global marriage : cross-border marriage and marriage migration in global context

Global marriage : cross-border marriage and marriage migration in global context / Lucy Williams.

Research on cross-border marriage migration is an expanding field, but to date has been studied from close regional or community specific perspectives. Research has tended to focus on either marriage within settled, migrant communities or on marriages between citizens and migrants with different cul...

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Main Author: Williams, Lucy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Migration, minorities, and citizenship.
Subjects:
Intercountry marriage.
Transnationalism.
Women > Social conditions.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Interethnic marriage.
Interethnic marriage
Globalization > Social aspects
Intercountry marriage
Transnationalism
Women > Social conditions
Intermarriage.
Marriage.
Women.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing Cross-Border Marriage Migration
  • Gendering Migration
  • An Agency Approach to Understanding Marriage Migration
  • An Overview of Global Cross-Border Marriage Migration
  • Power, Stigma and Violence in Migration and Cross-border Marriage
  • Transnational Marriage within South Asian Communities
  • Cross-border Marriages within East Asia
  • Marriage within Refugee Communities
  • Some Examples of Transnational and€Non-transnational Marriages
  • Migration Regimes and Policy Implications
  • Migrant Life/ Married Life
  • Life as a Cross-border Marriage Migrant
  • Conclusions and a Proposed Research Agenda.

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