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1 online resource (vi, 220 pages) |
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Introduction : Cross-border marriages, gendered mobility, and global hypergamy / Nicole Constable -- Cross-border hypergamy? Marriage exchanges in a transnational Hakka community / Ellen Oxfeld -- Cautionary tales : marriage strategies, state discourse, and women's agency in a Naxi village in southwestern China / Emily Chao -- Marrying out of place : Hmong/Miao women across and beyond China / Louisa Schein -- Marrying up and marrying down : the paradoxes of marital mobility for Chosŏnjok brides in South Korea / Caren Freeman -- A failed attempt at transnational marriage : maternal citizenship in a globalizing South Korea / Nancy Abelmann and Hyunhee Kim -- Tripartite desires : Filipina-Japanese marriages and fantasies of transnational traversal / Nobue Suzuki -- Clashing dreams in the Vietnamese diaspora : highly educated overseas brides and low-wage U.S. husbands / Hung Cam Thai -- A tale of two marriages : international matchmaking and gendered mobility / Nicole Constable |
| Summary |
Explores the patterns of marriages of Asian women, including the legendary "mail-order bride." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Intercountry marriage.
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Intercountry marriage -- Asia
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Social mobility.
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Women -- Asia
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Asians -- Foreign countries
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Interethnic marriage.
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Asian diaspora.
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Social Mobility
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social mobility.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Interethnic marriage
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Intercountry marriage
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Social mobility
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Women
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Geschlechterrolle
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Mischehe
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Asia
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Asien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Constable, Nicole.
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| ISBN |
9780812200645 |
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0812200640 |
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0812238303 |
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9780812238303 |
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0812218914 |
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9780812218916 |
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1283211114 |
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9781283211116 |
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9786613211118 |
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6613211117 |
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