Marriage Migration in Asia
Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States
New Edition
Distributed for National University of Singapore Press
Marriage Migration in Asia
Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States
New Edition
232 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2016
Asian Studies: General Asian Studies
Sociology: Social Change, Social Movements, Political Sociology, Sociology--Marriage and Family
Reviews
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Marriage Migrants as Multi-marginalized Transnational Diaspora
Sari K. Ishii
Part I Migration Flows beyond the Marriage-scapes
Chapter 1: forging Intimate Ties in Transnational Spaces: the Life Trajectories of Japanese women Married to Pakistani Migrants
Masako Kudo
Chapter 2: Unintentional Cross-Cultural Familities: the Diverse Community of Japanese Wives in Shanghai
Chie Sakai
Chapter 3: Marriage “during” Work Migration: Lived Experiences of Filipinos Marriage Migrants in Malaysia
Linda A. Lumayag
Part II Reversed Geographies of Power
Chapter 4: “Centre/Peripheery” Flow Reversed? Twenty Years of Cross-border Marriages between Philippine Women and Japanese Men
Ikuya Tokoro
Chapter 5: Child Return Migration from Japan to Thailand
Sari K. Ishii
Chapter 6: Assimilation of the Descendants of Caucasian Muslims in Sarawak, Malaysia
Caesar Dealwis
Part III: Marriage Migrants as Multi-Marginalized Diaspora
Chapter 7: Lives in Limbo: Unsusccessful Marriages in Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
Caroline Grillot
Chapter 8: Lives of Mixed Vietnamese-Korean Children in Vietnam
Hien Anh Le
Chapter 9: Born to Be Stateless, Being Stateless: Transnational Marriage, Migration and the Registration of Stateless People in Japan
Lara, Chen Tien-Shi
Chapter 10: Legal Problems of Marriage between Irregular Workers from Myanmar and Thai Naionals in Thailand
Chatchai Chetsumon
Contributors
Index
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