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Marriage, migration and gender/ Rajni Palriwala; Patricia Uberoi

By: Palriwala, RajniContributor(s): Uberoi, PatriciaMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: SAGE, 2008ISBN: 9789352801398Subject(s): Social ScienceOnline resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

Introduction -- Exploring the links: gender issues in marriage and migration / Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Uberoi -- Marriage as migration -- Marriage migration in China: the enlargement of marriage markets in the era of market reforms / Delia Davin -- Bridal diaspora: migration and marriage among Filipino women / Teresita C. Del Rosario -- "America Varan": marriages among the Tamil Brahmins: preferences, strategies and outcomes / U. Kalpagam -- Brokering marriage -- Commercially arranged marriage migration: case studies of cross-border marriages in Taiwan / Melody Chia-wen Lu -- Bangladeshi girls sold as wives in North India / Thérèse Blanchet -- Unorthodox sisters: gender relations and generational change among Malayali migrants in Italy / Ester Gallo -- Marriage transactions and transnational contexts -- Marriage, money and gender: a case study of the migrant Indian community in Canada / Ranjana Sheel -- Gender, dowry and the migration system of Indian information technology professionals / Xiang Biao -- The strains of marriage migration -- Vulnerable brides and transnational ghar damads: gender, risk and "adjustment" among Pakistani marriage migrants to Britain / Katharine Charsley -- Marriage and migration through the life course: experiences of widowhood, separation and divorce amongst transnational Sikh women / Kanwal Mand -- Domestic violence and the Indian diaspora in the United States / Margaret Abraham -- Child custody cases in the context of international migration / Kirti Singh -- About the editors and contributors -- Index.

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Introduction --
Exploring the links: gender issues in marriage and migration / Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Uberoi --
Marriage as migration --
Marriage migration in China: the enlargement of marriage markets in the era of market reforms / Delia Davin --
Bridal diaspora: migration and marriage among Filipino women / Teresita C. Del Rosario --
"America Varan": marriages among the Tamil Brahmins: preferences, strategies and outcomes / U. Kalpagam --
Brokering marriage --
Commercially arranged marriage migration: case studies of cross-border marriages in Taiwan / Melody Chia-wen Lu --
Bangladeshi girls sold as wives in North India / Thérèse Blanchet --
Unorthodox sisters: gender relations and generational change among Malayali migrants in Italy / Ester Gallo --
Marriage transactions and transnational contexts --
Marriage, money and gender: a case study of the migrant Indian community in Canada / Ranjana Sheel --
Gender, dowry and the migration system of Indian information technology professionals / Xiang Biao --
The strains of marriage migration --
Vulnerable brides and transnational ghar damads: gender, risk and "adjustment" among Pakistani marriage migrants to Britain / Katharine Charsley --
Marriage and migration through the life course: experiences of widowhood, separation and divorce amongst transnational Sikh women / Kanwal Mand --
Domestic violence and the Indian diaspora in the United States / Margaret Abraham --
Child custody cases in the context of international migration / Kirti Singh --
About the editors and contributors --
Index.

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