Introduction: Marriage's Global Past

McDougall, Sara; Pearsall, Sarah M. S.

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“…Throughout history, families have planned marriages for couples, and most couples married not because they were in love but for economic reasons and to establish a family (Salaff, 1973). Hence, it is necessary to critically understand the social, religious, political and economic context for marriage practices (McDougall & Pearsall, 2017). Many reasons have been proposed as to why IMM is an increasingly frequent practice.…”

Section: Contextualising International Marriage Migrationmentioning

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“…For instance, while the colonisation of Australia initially seemed to require young men suited to the physical labour of colonisation, the resulting gender imbalance made the project of settler colonialism more difficult, prompting a drive for women to migrate in order to redress the imbalance (Gothard, 2002). Prohibitions on marriages between colonial and native populations in various colonial contexts likewise necessitated forms of IMM (Lovett, 1994; McDougall & Pearsall, 2017; Voss, 2008). In another instance of historical marriage migration, 1945 War Brides Act facilitated the migration of hundreds of thousands of women to the United States from countries in which American soldiers had previously been deployed (Kim, 2010; Yuh, 2003).…”

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International marriage migration: The predicament of culture and its negotiations

Ullah

Chattoraj

2023

International Migration

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Marriage‐led migration or migration‐led marriage was rarely discussed in public or private realms just over two decades ago. However, international marriage migration (IMM) has become a norm in today's globalised world. While a substantial body of literature deals with this growing practice, existing literature does not adequately address the role that ethnicity plays in the context of IMM. The purpose of this study is to explore the question of ethnicity in IMM in Southeast Asian contexts. It focusses on what we have called the ‘predicament of ethnicity’ and the negotiations around ethnicity, culture and identity among couples where at least one partner migrated for the purpose of the marriage. The study is based on interviews with international couples selected using a snowball sampling method and demonstrates complex and intriguing patterns of cultural and ethnic identity negotiations between international Southeast Asian couples.

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Section: Contextualising International Marriage Migrationmentioning

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International marriage migration: The predicament of culture and its negotiations

Ullah

Chattoraj

2023

International Migration

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“…First, we have sought to shed new light on the comprehensive and well established body of work on the general history of marriage and the family (for example, Burguière, 1996;Kertzer & Barbagli, 2001Shorter, 1976). With our global and comparative perspective, we have also aimed to contribute to flourishing new research on the global history of marriage and the family (for example, Celello & Kholoussy, 2016;McDougall & Pearsall, 2017;Moses, 2017;Maynes & Waltner, 2012). Not least, by examining relationships that cross borders, and the concomitant tropes and understandings of gender and sexuality that accompanied those relationships, we have attempted to contribute to the growing and related new field of research on transnational gender history and the transnational history of sexuality (for example, Meyerowitz, 2009;Wiesner-Hanks, 2011).…”

Section: Gender Sexuality and The Global: Future Directions For Resementioning

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Romantic relationships across boundaries: global and comparative perspectives

Moses

Woesthoff

2019

The History of the Family

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In response to the mass globalization of the twenty-first century and associated migration, a recent boom in social-scientific research has analyzed various manifestations of 'binational', interreligious and interracial romantic relationships in the present and recent past. This special issue seeks to historicize this research by drawing on key case studies from around the world and across time and building on relevant historiography and theoretical literature. It seeks to chart how intermarriage and related relationships took shape: who participated in these unions? How common were they, and in which circumstances were they practiced (or banned)? With a global, diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective, we also aim to question some of the categories behind these relationships. Central to these issues, we argue, is the question of boundary formation. Here, we draw on social-scientific research that has emphasized multiple boundaries involved in the creation of identity and groups. We also highlight the intersectionality of those boundaries, meaning that notions about ethnicity, religion, gender and social class often overlap and intersect in various ways when it comes to relationships. Contributions to this collection tap a range of related questions, such as how did geographical boundariesfor example, across national lines, distinctions between colonies and metropoles or metaphors of the 'East' and the 'West'shape the treatment of intermarriage? What role have social and symbolic boundaries, such as presumed racial, confessional or socio-economic divides, played? To what extent and how were those boundaries blurred in the eyes of contemporaries? How have bureaucracies and law contributed to the creation of boundaries preventing romantic unions? Romantic relationships, we suggest, provided a key test case for boundary crossings because they brought into sharp relief assumptions not only about community and assimilation, but also about the sanctity of the intimate sphere of love and family.

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“…This thematic focus points to the importance of studying intimate relations, especially connections to larger social developments (Steber and Gotto 2014;Harvey et al 2019). Historians also stress the importance of subsequent policies across different regimes and over long periods (e.g., Celello and Kholoussy 2016;McDougall and Pearsall 2017;Moses 2018). However, social and institutional interaction with other "strangers" continues to be a blind spot of historical research.…”

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Shifting Racial Boundaries and Their Limits. German Women, Non-European Men, and the Negotiation of Sexuality and Intimacy in Nazi Germany

Lorke

2020

Genealogy

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This essay examines the cultural, ethnic, and “racial” boundaries of the National Socialist “Volksgemeinschaft” based on planned, failed, and completed marriages between German women and non-European men in the early twentieth century. From evidence in the relevant files from the Federal Archives and the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office, this essay discusses male partners from various countries of origin as examples of the role of the state in racially mixed unions. The reactions of the institutional actors and the couples themselves demonstrated the surprising ambivalence of National Socialist racial policy due to political and diplomatic requirements.

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Introduction: Marriage's Global Past

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

International marriage migration: The predicament of culture and its negotiations

International marriage migration: The predicament of culture and its negotiations

Romantic relationships across boundaries: global and comparative perspectives

Shifting Racial Boundaries and Their Limits. German Women, Non-European Men, and the Negotiation of Sexuality and Intimacy in Nazi Germany

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