Marriage, migration and gender / editors, Rajni Palriwala, Patricia Uberoi.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: New Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2008.Description: 359 pISBN:- 9780761936756 (pbk) :
- 9788178298412 (India : pbk.) :
- 306.84508995
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Introduction. Exploring the links: gender issues in marriage and migration / Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Uberoi -- Marriage as migration. Marriage migration in China: the enlargement of marriage markets in the era of market reforms / Delia Davin -- Bridal diaspora: migration and marriage among Filipino women / Teresita C. del Rosario -- "America Varan": marriages among Tamil Brahmans: preferences, strategies and outcomes / U. Kalpagam -- Brokering marriage. Commercially arranged marriage migration: case studies of cross-border marriages in Taiwan / Melody Chia-wen Lu -- Bangladeshi girls sold as wives in North India / Thérèse Blanchet -- Unorthodox sisters: gender relations and generational change among Malayali migrants in Italy / Ester Gallo -- Marriage transactions and transnational contexts. Marriage, money and gender: a case study of the migrant Indian community in Canada / Ranjana Sheel -- Gender, dowry and the migration system of Indian information technology professionals / Xiang Biao -- The strains of marriage migration. Vulnerable brides and transnational "ghar damads": gender, risk and "adjustment" among Pakistani marriage migrants to Britain / Katharine Charsley -- Marriage and migration through the life course: experiences of widowhood, separation and divorce amongst transnational Sikh women / Kanwal Mand -- Domestic violence and the Indian diaspora in the United States / Margaret Abraham -- Child custody cases in the context of international migration / Kirti Singh -- About the editors and contributors -- Index.
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