Cross-border Marriages and Mobility : Female Chinese Migrants and Hong Kong Men
This book focuses on cross-border marriages between mainland Chinese women and Hong Kong men, a phenomenon which is of critical importance to the transformation of Hong Kong. Based on ethnographic work, Avital Binah-Pollak aims to explain the relationships between gender dynamics and inequalities at...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2019.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Hong Kong-China Border: A Space of Confinement and Movement
- 2. Motivations for Crossing Borders
- 3. 'Same as Before, Living as a House Wife'
- 4. Hong Kong's Education: A Bridge to the 'First World'
- 5. New Voices in Hong Kong: Local Identity Formation
- Concluding Thoughts : Home Is not where the Heart Is but where it Wants to Be
- Bibliography
- Index