Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781032146591 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 230 str.

Zheng Mu; Wei-Jun Jean Yeung

Opis

This book analyses how Asian migrants adapt and assimilate into their host societies, and how this assimilation differs across their sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Generation, education, and intermarriage of Asian Americans 3. Love in the melting pot: ethnic intermarriage in Jakarta 4. Internal migration, marriage timing and assortative mating: a mixed- method study in China 5. Do gender systems in the origin and destination societies affect immigrant integration? Vietnamese marriage migrants in Taiwan and South Korea 6. Happiness of female immigrants in cross- border marriages in Taiwan 7. Physical versus imagined communities: migration and women’s autonomy in India 8. The decoupling of legal and spatial migration of female marriage migrants 9. Marital dissolution of transnational couples in South Korea 10. Transnational divorces in Singapore: experiences of low- income divorced marriage migrant women 11. Remarriages and transnational marriages in Hong Kong: implications and challenges