International marriage in East and Southeast Asia: Trends and research emphases

Citizenship Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-25

  Jones, Gavin ^a   Shen, Hsiu Hua ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Citizenship; East and Southern Asia; Gender; International marriage; Migration; State

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; GENDER ISSUE; HUMAN RIGHTS; MARRIAGE; MIGRATION; RESEARCH; SOVEREIGNTY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 38349077482     PISSN: 13621025     EISSN: 14693593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13621020701794091     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. Abelmann, N. and Hyunhee, K. (2005) A failed attempt at transnational marriage: Maternal citizenship in a globalizing South Korea. Cross-border marriages: Gender and mobility in transnational Asia, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
2. Brown, P. M. (1996) For wedded bliss: Satisfaction of migrant partners of Australian residents. Asian women in migration, pp. 123-145. Scalabrini Migration Center, Quezon City
3. Burgess, C. (2004) (Re)constructing identities: International marriage migrants as potential agents of social change in a globalizing Japan. Asian studies review, 28, pp. 223-242.
4. Chao, A. (2004) The modern state, citizenship, and the intimate life: A case study of Taiwan's glorious citizens and their mainland wives. Taiwanese sociology, 8, pp. 1-41.
5. Constable, N. (2003) Romance on a global stage, University of California Press, Berkeley
6. Constable, N. (2003) A transnational perspective on divorce and marriage: Filipina wives and workers. Identities, 10, pp. 163-180.
7. Constable, N. (2005) Introduction: Cross-border marriages, gendered mobility, and global hypergamy. Cross-border marriages: Gender and mobility in transnational Asia, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
8. Curtin, J. S. (2002) International marriages in Japan: Part four-basic data on international marriage in 2002. Social trends, 16
9. Eberstadt, N. (2000) Prosperous paupers and other population problems, Transaction, Brunswick, NJ
10. Freeman, L. (2005) Marrying up and marrying down: The paradoxes of marital mobility for Chosonjok brides in South Korea. Cross-border marriages: Gender and mobility in transnational Asia, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
11. Hugo, G. (2005) The new international migration in Asia: Challenges for population research. Asian population studies, 1:1, pp. 93-120.
12. Jackson, R. (1993) Recent migration to Australia from the Philippines. Discovering Australia: Essays in Philippines Australia interactions, Department of History and Politics, James Cook University, Townsville
13. Jones, G. W. (1997) The demise of universal marriage in East and South-East Asia. The continuing demographic transition, pp. 51-79. Oxford University Press, Oxford
14. Kim, D-S. (2004) Missing girls in South Korea: Trends, levels and regional variations. Population (English edition), 59:6, pp. 865-878.
15. Kung, I. C. (2004) The sexual politics of foreign capital: Exchange relation between Taiwanese capital and local women in Vietnam. Taiwan: A radical quarterly in social studies, 55, pp. 101-140.
16. Lang, G. and Smart, J. (2000) Migration and the second wife in south China: Toward crossborder polygyny. International migration review, 36, pp. 546-569.
17. Lavely, W. (1991) Marriage and mobility under rural collectivism. Marriage and inequality in Chinese society, pp. 286-312. University of California Press, Berkeley
18. Lee, H. -K. (2005) Changing trends in paid domestic work in South Korea. Asian women as transnational domestic workers, Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore
19. McKay, D. (2003) Filipinas in Canada: De-skilling as a push toward Marriage. Wife or worker? Asian women and migration, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham
20. Nakamatsu, T. (2003) International marriage through introduction agencies: Social and legal realities of Asian wives of Japanese men. Wife or worker? Asian women and migration, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham
21. National Statistics Office (NSO) (2006) More females opt to be May brides (Marriage Statistics, Philippines, 2006). Special Release No. 206. National Statistics Office, Manila
22. Palriwala, R. and Uberoi, P. (2005) Marriage and migration in Asia: gender issue. Indian journal of gender studies, 12, pp. v-xxix.
23. Pessar, P. R. and Graham, P. M. (2001) The Dominicans: Transnational identities and local politics. New immigrants in New York, Columbia University Press, New York
24. Piper, N. (2003) Wife or worker? Worker or wife? Marriage and cross-border migration in contemporary Japan. International journal of population geography, 9, pp. 457-469.
25. Piper, N. and Roces, M. (2003) Introduction: Marriage and migration in an age of globalization. Wife or worker? Asian women and migration, Rowman and Lettlefield, New York
26. Robinson, K. (1996) Of mail-order brides, and 'boy's own' tales: representations of Asian-Australian marriages. Feminist review, 52, pp. 53-68.
27. Roces, M. (2003) Sisterhood is local: Filipino women in Mount Isa. Wife or worker? Asian women and migration, Rowman and Lettlefield, New York
28. Schein, L. (2005) Marrying out of place: Hmong/Miao women across and beyond China. Cross-border marriages: Gender and mobility in transnational Asia, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
29. Shen, H. H. (2005) 'The first Taiwanese wives' and 'the Chinese mistresses': The international division of labor in familial and intimate relations across the Taiwan Strait. Global networks, 5, pp. 419-437.
30. So, A. Y. (2003) Cross-border families in Hong Kong: The role of social class and politics. Critical Asian studies, 35, pp. 515-534.
31. Suzuki, N. (2003) Transgressing 'victims': Reading narratives of 'Filipina brides' in Japan. Critical Asian studies, 35, pp. 399-420.
32. Tsay, C. (2004) Marriage migration of women from China and Southeast Asia to Taiwan. (Un)tying the knot: Ideal and reality in Asian marriage, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore
33. Tsuda, T. (2003) Strangers in the ethnic homeland: Japanese Brazilian return migration in transnational perspective, Columbia University Press, New York
34. Wang, H. and Chang, S. (2002) The commodification of international marriages: Cross-border marriage business in Taiwan and Viet Nam. International migration, 40, pp. 93-116.
35. Yeoh, B. and Wills, K. (2004) Constructing masculinities in transnational space: Singapore men on the 'regional beat'. Transnational spaces, Routledge, London