Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-210) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Cross-border marriages, gendered mobility, and global hypergamy / Nicole Constable -- Cross-border hypergamy? Marriage exchanges in a transnational Hakka community / Ellen Oxfeld -- Cautionary tales : marriage strategies, state discourse, and women's agency in a Naxi village in southwestern China / Emily Chao -- Marrying out of place : Hmong/Miao women across and beyond China / Louisa Schein -- Marrying up and marrying down : the paradoxes of marital mobility for Chosŏnjok brides in South Korea / Caren Freeman -- A failed attempt at transnational marriage : maternal citizenship in a globalizing South Korea / Nancy Abelmann and Hyunhee Kim -- Tripartite desires : Filipina-Japanese marriages and fantasies of transnational traversal / Nobue Suzuki -- Clashing dreams in the Vietnamese diaspora : highly educated overseas brides and low-wage U.S. husbands / Hung Cam Thai -- A tale of two marriages : international matchmaking and gendered mobility / Nicole Constable.
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