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Nicole . Ed(S): Constable - Cross-Border Marriages - 9780812218916 - V9780812218916
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Cross-Border Marriages

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Description for Cross-Border Marriages paperback. Explores the patterns of marriages of Asian women, including the legendary "mail-order bride." Editor(s): Constable, Nicole. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 341.

Illuminating how international marriages are negotiated, arranged, and experienced, Cross-Border Marriages is the first book to chart marital migrations involving women and men of diverse national, ethnic, and class backgrounds. The migrations studied here cross geographical borders of provinces, rural-urban borders within nation-states, and international boundaries, including those of China, Japan, South Korea, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, the United States, and Canada. Looking at assumptions about the connection between international marriages and poverty, opportunism, and women's mobility, the book draws attention to ideas about global patterns of inequality that are thought to pressure poor women to emigrate to richer countries, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812218916
SKU
V9780812218916
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Nicole . Ed(S): Constable
Nicole Constable, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography and "Mail Order" Brides, among other works.

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