Marriage, migration and gender / editors, Rajni Palriwala, Patricia Uberoi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palriwala, Rajni, 1955-

Uberoi, Patricia.

Series:

Women and migration in Asia ; v. 5.

Women and migration in Asia ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercountry marriage.

Arranged marriage.

Asians--Foreign countries.

Asians.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Foreign countries.

Physical Description:

359 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2008.

Summary:

Marriage, Migration and Gender brings a gender-sensitive and comparative perspective to bear on Asian peoples' migration experiences, both within and across national borders. It seeks to examine how the institution of marriage may affect or enable women's and men's migration, as well as the impact of migration, state laws and immigration procedures on the marriage, family and kinship networks of Asian migrants.

Migration and marriage strategies are discussed through detailed case studies, whether of Filipina (allegedly 'mail-order') brides, transnational Tamil Brahmans, Pakistani grooms in the UK, or Malayali women in Italy, illustrating how marriage migration reflects individual as well as family aspirations for spatial and social mobility. The fluid boundaries between matchmaking and trafficking, as of Bangladeshi or Chinese migrant women, and the political economy of marriage transactions among a range of 'economic' migrants-from the Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, and other parts of India-are drawn out. The chapters question conventional dichotomous constructions of emotional versus material considerations in the choice of marriage partner. The implications of migration for conjugal and inter-generational relations, including the increasing distance between natal and marital homes, the intensification of pre-existing socio-cultural faultlines, shifts in culturally normative familial and work roles and the transformation of familial relations have also been addressed.

The chapters in the volume highlight the varied forms of women's agency in marriage and migration strategies. These range from passive to active resistance and the ability to work for change in normative structures. Simultaneously, attention is drawn to the constraints on and opportunities for women's and men's exercise of agency, including politico-economic processes, historical and symbolic determinations, cultural constructs, and the social embeddedness of personhood.

The contributors are from a variety of disciplines, mostly sociology and social anthropology. Several of them have been activists on the issues that they write about. The volume will be of interest to sociologists, social anthropologists, scholars interested in migration, gender and labour studies, as well as social workers and activists.

Contents:

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 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780761936756

0761936750

OCLC:

191846895