scholarly journals Transnational marriages in Yiwu, China: tensions over money

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 766-784
Author(s):  
HEILA SHA
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Marriages

scholarly journals Transnational Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Asian Men in Vietnamese Online Media

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danièle Bélanger ◽  
Khuất Thu Hồng ◽  
Trần Giang Linh
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Transnational Marriages ◽  
Vietnamese Women ◽  
International Marriages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Asian Men ◽  
The Media ◽  
Vietnamese Studies

This paper examines the social construction of marriage migration in Vietnamese online media. We present a content analysis of 643 items published online between 2000 and 2010 on international marriages between Vietnamese women and foreign Asian men. Our analysis reveals that online media content speaks to four important shifts discussed in Vietnamese studies: (1) shifts in notions of gender, sexuality, and marriage; (2) emerging discourses around class-making; (3) emerging discourse on human trafficking; and (4) shifting roles of the media.

Family, love, marriage and migration: the push and pull of private life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. James Hammerton
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
Transnational Marriages ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Family Breakdown ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Push And Pull

This chapter explores ways in which the dynamics of love, marriage and family have shaped experiences and stories voiced by modern migrants. It focuses on the darker and brighter sides of migration and private life, where twin influences of migration and emotionally driven events are difficult to disentangle. These cases provide stark evidence of how modern migration became more discretionary, facilitating decisions to change countries for love – or for loss of love. Even the darker stories suggest migration could provide relief from the pain of family breakdown and divorce possibly due to resilience born of the challenges of adaptation to new countries. Transnational child custody cases and the complications of transnational marriages add further dimensions of complexity. Stories of close-knit but fractured families across three countries, with complex emotional histories, reveal equally complex understandings of the idea of ‘home’ as sanctuary, which owes something to changing attitudes to mobility. The final section, ‘Making the heart grow fonder: transnational love stories’, explores two women’s accounts in which emotions drove transnational love stories in striking ways, one over nearly half a century. All the stories mark a new trend of discretionary migration in an age of affluence.

scholarly journals ‘Abandoned Women’: Transnational Marriages and Gendered Legal Citizens

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (100) ◽  
pp. 165-181
Author(s):  
Anupama Roy ◽  
Sundari Anitha ◽  
Harshita Yalamarty
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Marriages

scholarly journals Transnational marriage among former labour migrants in Germany

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Kalter ◽  
Julia H. Schroedter
Keyword(s):  
Group Differences ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Turkish Women ◽  
General Increase ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Transnational Marriages ◽  
Empirische Analyse ◽  
Transnational Marriage ◽  
German Microcensus ◽  
Degree Of Differentiation

In this paper we make use of data from the official statistics to analyze transnational marriage among immigrants in Germany. Pooling all currently available Scientific Use Files of the German Microcensus between 1976 and 2004, we are able to contribute empirical findings that are unique in their scope and their degree of differentiation. We look at the five most common groups of former labour migrants and study group-specific trends over generations and time. Our empirical analysis is guided by four basic expectations, which are anchored in a more general theoretical framework of immigrants’ marriage behaviour. We find, as expected, large group differences in the propensity to select a spouse from one’s own country of origin. Assumed effects of the opportunity structure, however, can only be confirmed for women. Central derivations from a general assimilationist view are also only partly supported: A general increase in transnational marriages among ex-Yugoslav and Turkish women over marriage cohorts, and the absence of any effects of structural assimilation on the propensity toward transnational marriages are the most puzzling results. Zusammenfassung In diesem Beitrag verwenden wir Daten der amtlichen Statistik, um transnationale Ehen bei Immigranten in Deutschland zu analysieren. Die Zusammenführung aller verfügbaren Scientific Use Files des deutschen Mikrozenus zwischen 1976 und 2004 liefert empirische Befunde, die in ihrer Breite und in der Tiefe ihrer Differenzierung bislang einzigartig sind. Wir betrachten die fünf am weitesten verbreiteten Gruppen ehemaliger Arbeitsmigranten und untersuchen gruppenspezifische Trends über die Generationen und über die Zeit. Unsere empirische Analyse wird von vier Grundannahmen geleitet, die in einem allgemeineren theoretischen Rahmen des Heiratsverhaltens von Migranten verankert sind. Wie erwartet finden wir hinsichtlich der Neigung, eine(n) Partner(in) aus dem jeweils eigenen Herkunftsland zu wählen, große Unterschiede zwischen den Gruppen. Die vermuteten Effekte der Opportunitätsstruktur werden jedoch nur für die Frauen bestätigt. Zentrale Schlussfolgerungen aus einer allgemein assimilationistischen Sichtweise zeigen sich ebenfalls nur teilweise: Zu den erstaunlichsten Ergebnissen unserer Studie gehören die allgemeine Zunahme transnationaler Ehen von Frauen aus dem ehemaligen Jugoslawien und der Türkei sowie die Abwesenheit von Effekten der strukturellen Assimilation auf die Neigung zur transnationalen Ehe.

Negotiating between Shi’a and Catholic Rituals in Iran

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Ashraf Zahedi
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Transnational Marriages ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Iranian Children ◽  
At Home

Religious rituals, while comforting for believers, may be uncomfortable for those who do not share their manifold meanings. Catholic Filipinas who marry Muslim Iranian men face mandatory conversion to Islam, necessitating ongoing negotiations between Christianity and Islam. My research suggests that these Filipinas held their first religion dear while participating in – for them – unpleasant Shi’a Muslims rituals. Their Filipino/Iranian children, familiar from birth with Shi’a Islam, felt at home with both religions, no matter which one they chose for themselves. The discussion of converts’ perceptions of Shi’a rituals contributes to the literature on transnational marriages and marriage migration.

scholarly journals Language and Culture Backgrounds of Mothers and Child Development: A Nationwide Study on the Incidence of Developmental Delays in Children Born to Immigrant Mothers in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen-Cheng Tseng ◽  
Der-Chung Lai ◽  
How-Ran Guo
Keyword(s):  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
National Registry ◽  
Nationwide Study ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
Transnational Marriages ◽  
Rate Ratios

Background: Transnational marriages are common as a result of globalization, and immigrant mothers face various degrees of differences in language and culture backgrounds. Mothers have great influences on the development of their children, but the effects of immigrant mothers' language and culture backgrounds on developmental delays (DD) are seldom studied. To evaluate the potential effects of immigrant mothers' language and culture backgrounds on DD of their children, we conducted a nationwide study in Taiwan.Methods: We analyzed the data from the national registry of DD in Taiwan from 2010 to 2013 and compared the incidence of DD in young children born to mothers from China, Vietnam, and Indonesia, where most of the immigrant mothers in Taiwan come from. Amongst the three countries, China is the closest to Taiwan in terms of language and culture, followed by Vietnam, and then Indonesia.Results: We identified 4,604 patients of DD in children under 7 years old. The incidence rates showed an increasing trend among children born to mothers from China, Vietnam, and Indonesia (p < 0.01 in all years). Using children born to mothers from Vietnam, whose incidence rate of DD was in the middle amongst the three groups, as the reference, we found the incidence rate ratios in children born to mothers from China ranged from 0.65 to 0.73, and those in children born to mothers from Indonesia ranged from 1.04 to 1.26.Conclusions: The findings support the important role of mothers' language and culture backgrounds in the development of children.

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