scholarly journals Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration. Demographic Patterns and Social Issues

Moussons ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 179-181
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre de Saint-Aubert
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Demographic Patterns

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.

‘Transnational civil dis/obedience’ in the Danish family unification dispute

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rikke Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Eu Law ◽  
Individual Liberty ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
International Couples ◽  
Political Character ◽  
Danish Family ◽  
Cross Border Movement

This article develops a concept of transnational civil dis/obedience. It provides a framework for interpreting and evaluating practices of cross-border movement by citizens and migrants, who mobilize international or supranational law to sidestep and challenge domestic rules deemed illegitimate. Such acts are made possible by, but also enact, complex, overlapping and competing legal orders in Europe and elsewhere. In contrast to analyses stressing the private and market-based nature of these actions, the conceptual lens introduced here draws out their potentially civic and political character. To construct and illustrate my argument, I engage with an in-depth case study of EU citizenship and cross-border movement in the area of marriage migration, where individual liberty and political membership are fiercely contested. The paper draws on narrative interviews with Danish-international couples who in response to Denmark’s restrictive family unification rules have used EU-law to protest against what they see as unjust interference in their private lives.

Social issues will shape intra-African migration

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Temporary Migration ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Border Communities ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Migration Pathways ◽  
European Migration

Subject Internal migration within Africa. Significance Western media coverage of the European migration ‘crisis’ often obscures the reality that more Africans migrate within their own continent than make illegal, treacherous journeys across the Mediterranean. More than half of African migrants remain within Africa, following much older and more entrenched migration pathways crisscrossing the continent. However, they too face pressures in both their journeys and their destinations. Impacts Cross-border seasonal or temporary migration will remain central to the livelihoods of many border communities. For many people, the choice of migrating within or outside Africa will fall along a continuum of choices based on changing conditions. Narrowing opportunities along intra-African routes may encourage some migrants to seek alternatives in the Americas, Middle East or Asia.

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