Marriage migration from below: The assessing of ‘genuineness’ among binational couples in Australia#

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrike Hoogenraad
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Migration

Migration, Crises, and Social Transformation in India Since the 1990s

2018 ◽  
pp. 260-278
Author(s):  
Smriti Rao ◽  
Vamsi Vakulabharanam
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Reproductive Labor ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Agrarian Crisis

Since liberalization, urban migration in India has increased in quantity, but also changed in quality, with permanent marriage migration and temporary, circular employment migration rising, even as permanent economic migration remains stagnant. This chapter understands internal migration in India to be a reordering of productive and reproductive labor that signifies a deep transformation of society. The chapter argues that this transformation is a response to three overlapping crises: an agrarian crisis, an employment crisis, and a crisis of social reproduction. These are not crises for capitalist accumulation, which they enable. Rather, they make it impossible for a majority of Indians to achieve stable, rooted livelihoods.

Marriage Migration and Integration: Unpacking the Arguments and Evidence

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-81
Author(s):  
Katharine Charsley ◽  
Marta Bolognani ◽  
Evelyn Ersanilli ◽  
Sarah Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Migration

scholarly journals Appropriating Stereotypes of Kin, Romance and Gender: An Ethnographic Study of Filipina Migrants  Married to or in De-Facto Relationships with New Zealand Men

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hollie Alexandria Doar
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Mail Order Brides ◽  
Transnational Marriage ◽  
And Gender

<p>Transnational marriage migration is an emerging area of interest in anthropology, and contemporary scholars have written extensively on the international movements of Filipina women who have married non-Filipino men. Extending this research into an antipodean context, this thesis is based on interviews with Filipina migrants married to or in de-facto relationships with New Zealand men. Through an examination of narratives of love and romance, identity, and kinship, this work highlights the ways participants undertook identity work in their interviews. In particular, this thesis reveals the strategies employed by Filipina migrants in constructing narratives in which they distance themselves from negative stereotypes, while incorporating more positive typologies into their identities. Stereotypes included Filipina women as mail-order brides, domestic workers, subservient wives, and good family members. These narrative strategies demonstrated the ways participants sought to control and manipulate stereotypes in order to present themselves as successful and virtuous migrants. This thesis applies current scholarship on identity work and stereotypes. It also contributes to literature on marriage migration by expanding a contemporary focus on participant agency through acknowledging how migrants utilise identity resources, in this case stereotypes, available in their host society.</p>

Gendered Investments in Marriage Migration

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-140
Author(s):  
Chigusa Yamaura
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Women ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Town

This chapter discusses how Chinese women in the town of Xinghai navigated their marriageability. In doing so, it offers a picture of cross-border matchmaking practices that, due to differences in the local context, is distinct in a number of ways from Dongyang. In a community where it was socially expected that one should go to Japan, marriage migration to Japan had become a strategy and gendered site of investment for women. By paying expensive brokerage fees, many women actively produced the circumstances of their marriageability and commodified their marriage. But despite their active efforts, their sense of subjectivity within these processes remained unstable. This was due to the unequal and dependent nature of the mobility they engaged in, namely, marriage.

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