International Marriages and Marital Citizenship: Southeast Asian Women on the Move (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (713 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073FRD6RW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 382 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is a Radboud Excellence Initiative fellow at the Centre for Migration Law / Institute for the Sociology of Law of Radboud University, the Netherlands. . Gwénola Ricordeau is Associate Professor of sociology at the Lille Center for Sociolog
Focusing on the case of Southeast Asian women who have been epitomized on the global marriage market as ‘ideal’ brides and wives, this volume examines these women’s experiences of international marriage, migration, and states' governmentality. While marriage has lost its popularity in many developed countries and is no longer an obligatory path to family formation, it has gained momentum among binational couples as states reinforce their control over human migration. These regimes influence the familial and social incorporation of Southeast Asian migrant women, notably their access to socio-political and civic rights in their receiving countries. Drawing from ethnographic research and policy analyses, this book sheds light on the way many countries in Southeast Asia and beyond have redefined marriage and national belonging through their regime of ‘marital citizenship’ (that is, a legal status granted by a state to a migrant by virtue of his/her marriage to one of its citizens). The case studies analysed in this volume hi
. Gwénola Ricordeau is Associate Professor of sociology at the Lille Center for Sociological and Economic Research (CLERSE) of the University Lille 1, France. About the AuthorAsuncion Fresnoza-Flot is a Radboud Excellence Initiative fellow at the Centre for Migration Law / Institute for the Sociology of Law of Radboud University, the Netherlands