Marriage, migration and gender
By: [edited by] Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Uberoi.
Contributors: Palriwala, Rajni, 1955-; Uberoi, Patricia.
Series: Women and migration in Asia -- 5
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Delhi; Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780761936756
Subjects: Intercountry marriage; Arranged marriage; Asians -- Foreign countries; Globalization -- Social aspects
Description: Proceedings of the International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, held at New Delhi in December 2003.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Exploring the links: gender issues in marriage and migration / Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Uberoi; title: Marriage as migration; title: Marriage migration in China: the enlargement of marriage markets in the era of market reforms / Delia Davin; title: Bridal diaspora: migration and marriage among Filipino women / Teresita C. Del Rosario; title: "America Varan": marriages among the Tamil Brahmins: preferences, strategies and outcomes / U. Kalpagam; title: Brokering marriage; title: Commercially arranged marriage migration: case studies of cross-border marriages in Taiwan / Melody Chia-wen Lu; title: Bangladeshi girls sold as wives in North India / Thérèse Blanchet; title: Unorthodox sisters: gender relations and generational change among Malayali migrants in Italy / Ester Gallo; title: Marriage transactions and transnational contexts; title: Marriage, money and gender: a case study of the migrant Indian community in Canada / Ranjana Sheel; title: Gender, dowry and the migration system of Indian information technology professionals / Xiang Biao; title: The strains of marriage migration; title: Vulnerable brides and transnational ghar damads: gender, risk and "adjustment" among Pakistani marriage migrants to Britain / Katharine Charsley; title: Marriage and migration through the life course: experiences of widowhood, separation and divorce amongst transnational Sikh women / Kanwal Mand; title: Domestic violence and the Indian diaspora in the United States / Margaret Abraham; title: Child custody cases in the context of international migration / Kirti Singh; title: About the editors and contributors; title: Index.