For Better or For Worse : Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy /

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Marriage is currently the number-one reason people migrate to the United States, and women constitute the majority of newcomers joining husbands who already reside here. But little is known about these marriage and migration streams beyond the highly publicized and often sensationalized phenomena of...

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Auteur principal: Thai, Hung Cam, 1976-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Vietnamese diaspora.
Marriage.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
Mondialisation > Aspect social.
Vietnamiens > Pays etrangers.
Mariage.
Marriage
United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : marriage and migration in the new global economy
  • The gift of modernity
  • Convertibility
  • Globalization as a gender strategy
  • The matchmaker
  • Money
  • The two unmarriageables
  • The highly unmarriageables
  • Conclusion : for better or for worse.

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