Marriage, migration and gender

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Palriwala, Rajni (HerausgeberIn), Uberoi, Patricia (Herausgebendes Organ)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Los Angeles u.a Sage Publ. 2008
Schriftenreihe:Women and migration in Asia 5
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:359 S.
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ISBN:9780761936756
978-0-7619-3675-6
9788178298412
978-81-7829-841-2