Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mu, Zheng; Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses how Asian migrants adapt and assimilate into their host societies, and how this assimilation differs across their sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000508291
• Artikelnr.: 62678888

Autorenporträt

Zheng Mu is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include trends, social determinants, and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with focus on how marriage and family serve as major inequality-generating mechanisms. Wei-Jun Jean Yeung is Provost-Chair Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. She is the founding Director of the Centre for Family and Population Research and the Cluster Leader of the Changing Family in Asia research cluster in the Asia Research Institute at NUS.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Generation, education, and intermarriage of Asian
Americans 3. Love in the melting pot: ethnic intermarriage in Jakarta 4.
Internal migration, marriage timing and assortative mating: a mixed- method
study in China 5. Do gender systems in the origin and destination societies
affect immigrant integration? Vietnamese marriage migrants in Taiwan and
South Korea 6. Happiness of female immigrants in cross- border marriages in
Taiwan 7. Physical versus imagined communities: migration and women's
autonomy in India 8. The decoupling of legal and spatial migration of
female marriage migrants 9. Marital dissolution of transnational couples in
South Korea 10. Transnational divorces in Singapore: experiences of low-
income divorced marriage migrant women 11. Remarriages and transnational
marriages in Hong Kong: implications and challenges