Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migration : Demographic Patterns and Social Issues
ISBN: 9789089640543 | 9089640541
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Pub. Date: 7/30/2010
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The past two decades have witnessed a rapid increase of cross-border marriage migration between Southeast- and East Asia. The majority of these marriages are between are men of wealthier countries/regions and women from economically less developed ones. The phenomena of "brides from Asia" in Japan, "Chosonjok brides" and "mixed marriages" in South Korea and "foreign and mainland brides" in Taiwan, all attract huge media attention, cause public panic, and challenge these societies whose population and immigration policies are based on mono-ethni... MORE
| Introduction Melody Chia-wen LU and YANG Wen-Shan | |
| Feminization of immigration in Japan: marital and job opportunities Kao-Lee LIAW | |
| Examining Cross-border marriage in Hong Kong: 1998-2005 | |
| Minority group status and fertility: the case of the ‘foreign brides’ in Taiwan | |
| The rise of international marriage and divorce in contemporary | |
| Vietnamese-Taiwanese marriages | |
| Cross-... MORE | |
| Moving cultural diversity toward cultural competence in social work: an exploratory study in working with Vietnamese women in Taiwan | |
| Foreign spouses’ acculturation in Taiwan: a comparison of their countries of origin, gender, and education degrees | |
| Transnational families among Muslims: the effect of social capital on educational strategies | |
| Marriage migration to East Asia: Current issues and propositions in making comparisons | |
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Wen-Shan Yang is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology and the convenor of the program for historical demography at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.
Melody Chia-Wen Lu is research fellow and coordinator at the International Institute for Asian Studies in the Netherlands.
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