Gender and International Marriage Migration

Abstract

In the last two decades, the growth of intra‐regional marriage migration in Asia has stimulated scholarly interest in destination countries. Marriage migration led to social, demographic, and cultural transformations of current and future generations in these countries, and raised new issues in relation to race, ethnicity, gender, class, and nationality. Recent scholarly work on international marriage migration has moved beyond the so‐called mail‐order bride discourse and has critically examined various aspects of the experiences of women marriage migrants in affinal families, communities, and societies. Influenced by the postcolonial feminist perspective, a great deal of the ethnographic and qualitative research on international marriage migration focuses on women’s agency, the patriarchal and heteronormative underpinnings of marriage, and incongruous gender relations, as well as the dynamics between local transformations and the global political economy.

Women's Migration for Domestic Work and Cross‐Border Marriage in East and Southeast Asia: Reproducing Domesticity, Contesting Citizenship

“…We also examine the success of existing studies in uncovering the complexity of migrant women's lives beyond categories that constrain them as simply “wife or worker” (Piper and Roces ). Our review of the literature suggests that even as studies of domestic labor migration have moved substantively beyond treating these women only as “workers” by illuminating their everyday lives as mothers, lovers, and political actors, studies of marriage migration still need to pay more attention to migrant women's diverse lived experiences as “workers.” For example, while the literature on marriage migration has been incorporated into the concept of “global care chains” (Kim ; Lan ; Lu ), it is often assumed – rather than examined and interrogated – that migrant wives fulfill unpaid reproductive and domestic labor at home. In other words, while most studies acknowledge the unpaid reproductive labor carried out by marriage migrants, few studies (Yeoh et al ) have placed the day‐to‐day unpaid laboring process at the center of their analyses.…”

Configurações Transatlânticas De Intimidade E Fluxos Migratórios No Nordeste Brasileiro

“…A constituição de vínculos íntimos transnacionais e os fluxos migratórios que deles decorrem têm sido alvo de significativo interesse por parte das ciências sociais, que conceitualizam o fenômeno como marriage migration (BECK; BECK-GERNSHEIM, 2010; BRENNAN, 2004;CHARSLEY, 2005;FLEMMEN, 2008;FLEMMEN;LOTHERINGTON, 2008;KIM, 2010;LAUSER, 2008;LU, 2005;PALRI䙠ALA;UBEROI, 2005;PISCITELLI, 2009;RIA1O, 2003;ROBINSON, 2007;YANG;LU, 2010;YEOH;LENG;DUNG, 2013), "fluxos matrimoniais" ou "migrações por amor" (GASPAR, 2012;KING, 2002;TOGNI, 2012;MAI;KING, 2009;RAPOSO;TOGNI, 2009;ROCA, 2007;ROCA et al, 2008;TRETO, 2012). À luz desses conceitos, os laços de intimidade não são considerados uma consequência da emigração, mas sua causa mais imediata (PUERTA;MASDÉU, 2010).…”

Migracje kobiet. Integracja międzykulturowa polskich kobiet z małżeństw mieszanych w Wielkiej Brytanii w kontekście stresu akulturacyjnego

“…W dobie globalizacji zawieranie małżeństw z osobami z różnych kultur stało się zjawiskiem dość powszechnym. Poszukiwanie współmałżonka na "międzynarodowym rynku małżeńskim" odzwierciedla oś globalnej potęgi, którą poruszają w badaniach Minjeong Kim (2010) oraz Thomas Niedomysl, John Östh i Maarten van Ham (2010). Małżeństwa między przedstawicielami różnych środowisk społecznych traktowane są jako jeden z najlepszych wskaźników integracji, a także jako przejaw zaniku dystansu społecznego.…”