Global Marriage [[electronic resource] ] : Cross-Border Marriage Migration in Global Context / / by Lucy Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785694403321
• Autore: Williams Lucy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-99718-1; 9786612997181; 0-230-28302-0
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2010.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Collana: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, , 2662-2602
• Disciplina: 306.845
• Soggetti: Social work; Social policy; Ethnicity; Families; Families—Social aspects; Social groups; Family; Social structure; Equality; Social Work; Social Policy; Ethnicity Studies; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Social Structure, Social Inequality
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography (p. 224-239) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introducing Cross-Border Marriage Migration; 2 Gendering Migration; 3 An Agency Approach to Understanding Marriage Migration; 4 An Overview of Global Cross-Border Marriage Migration; 5 Power, Stigma and Violence in Migration and Cross-Border Marriage; 6 Transnational Marriage within South Asian Communities; 7 Cross-Border Marriages within East Asia; 8 ; Marriage within Refugee Communities; 9 Migration Regimes and Policy Implications; 10 Migrant Life/Married Life; 11 Conclusion and a Proposed Research Agenda; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The popular imagination of marriage migration has been influenced by stories of marriage of convenience, of forced marriage, trafficking and of so-called mail-order brides. This book presents a uniquely global view of an expanding field that challenges these and other stereotypes of cross-border marriage.