Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration
Demographic Patterns and Social Issues
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
Yoshitaka ISHIKAWA
Department of Geography, Kyoto University, Japan
KIM Doo-Sub
Department of Sociology and Institute of Population and Aging Research
Hanyang University, South Korea
Kao-Lee LIAW
School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Canada
Ge LIN
Department of Geography, West Virginia University, USA
Melody LU Chia-Wen
International Institute of Asian Studies, the Netherlands
John MA
School of Humanity and Social Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Xoan NGUYEN
Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia
Emiko OCHIAI
Department of Sociology, Kyoto University, Japan
Marloes SCHOONHEIM
Research Center of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Shuko TAKESHITA
Department of Asian Studies, Chukyo Women’s University, Japan
Ratana TOSAKUL
Department of Anthropology, Mahidol University, Thailand.
Xuyen TRAN
Centre of Social Research and Consulting, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
TSENG Yen-Fen
Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
YANG Wen-Shan
Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
YEH Yu-Ching
Department of Early Childhood Education, National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Frank ZHANG
Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, USA
Despite active scholarly interest in the phenomenon of cross-border marriage migration between Southeast and East Asia—a majority of which marriages are between men from wealthier regions and women from regions that are less economically developed—we know very little about who these women are and why they choose to marry and migrate. This volume provides an overview of the demographic patterns and social issues related to cross-border marriage in the past two decades, as well as case studies that consider the living experiences and strategies of cross-border families in the host societies, sending communities, and transnational networks of nations like Japan, South, Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Table of contents
1. Introduction
Melody Chia-wen LU and YANG Wen-Shan
2. Feminization of immigration in Japan: marital and job opportunities
Kao-Lee LIAW, Emiko OCHIAI and Yoshitaka ISHIKAWA
3. Examining Cross-border marriage in Hong Kong: 1998-2005
John MA, Ge LIN and Frank ZHANG
4. Minority group status and fertility: the case of the ‘foreign brides’ in Taiwan
YANG Wen-Shan and Marloes SCHOONHEIM
5. The rise of international marriage and divorce in contemporary Korea
KIM Doo-Sub
6. Vietnamese-Taiwanese marriages
Xoan NGUYEN and Xuyen TRAN
7. Cross-border marriages: experiences of village women from Northeastern Thailand with Western men
Ratana TOSAKUL
8. Moving cultural diversity toward cultural competence in social work: an exploratory study in working with Vietnamese women in Taiwan
HUNG Su-Chen and YANG Wen-Shan
9. Foreign spouses’ acculturation in Taiwan: a comparison of their countries of origin, gender, and education degrees
YEH Yu-Ching
10. Transnational families among Muslims: the effect of social capital on educational strategies
Shuko TAKESHITA
11. Marriage migration to East Asia: Current issues and propositions in making comparisons TSENG Yen-Fen
Asian Studies: East Asia
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