Cross-border marriages : gender and mobility in transnational Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Constable, Nicole
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2005]
Subjects:	Intercountry marriage. Intercountry marriage > Asia. Social mobility. Women > Asia. Asians > Foreign countries.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Cross-border marriages, gendered mobility, and global hypergamy / Nicole Constable
Cross-border hypergamy? Marriage exchanges in a transnational Hakka community / Ellen Oxfeld
Cautionary tales : marriage strategies, state discourse, and women's agency in a Naxi village in southwestern China / Emily Chao
Marrying out of place : Hmong/Miao women across and beyond China / Louisa Schein
Marrying up and marrying down : the paradoxes of marital mobility for Chosŏnjok brides in South Korea / Caren Freeman
A failed attempt at transnational marriage : maternal citizenship in a globalizing South Korea / Nancy Abelmann and Hyunhee Kim
Tripartite desires : Filipina-Japanese marriages and fantasies of transnational traversal / Nobue Suzuki
Clashing dreams in the Vietnamese diaspora : highly educated overseas brides and low-wage U.S. husbands / Hung Cam Thai
A tale of two marriages : international matchmaking and gendered mobility / Nicole Constable.