A Case Analysis and Policy Suggestion on International Marriage Migration of Vietnam from the Perspective of Social Reproduction

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-463
Author(s):  
Myung Hee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
International Marriage ◽  
Policy Suggestion

Migration, Crises, and Social Transformation in India Since the 1990s

2018 ◽  
pp. 260-278
Author(s):  
Smriti Rao ◽  
Vamsi Vakulabharanam
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Reproductive Labor ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Agrarian Crisis

Since liberalization, urban migration in India has increased in quantity, but also changed in quality, with permanent marriage migration and temporary, circular employment migration rising, even as permanent economic migration remains stagnant. This chapter understands internal migration in India to be a reordering of productive and reproductive labor that signifies a deep transformation of society. The chapter argues that this transformation is a response to three overlapping crises: an agrarian crisis, an employment crisis, and a crisis of social reproduction. These are not crises for capitalist accumulation, which they enable. Rather, they make it impossible for a majority of Indians to achieve stable, rooted livelihoods.

“We no longer fear brides from afar”: Marriage markets and gendered mobilities in rural Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-270
Author(s):  
Danièle Bélanger ◽  
Guillaume Haemmerli
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Marriage Markets ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
International Marriage ◽  
Registration Data ◽  
Migration Dynamics ◽  
Family And Marriage

Since the late 1990s, Vietnamese women’s participation in international marriage migration has garnered academic and media attention. In contrast, internal marriage migration, a key driver of overall internal migration flows, has received scant consideration. In this paper, we examine marriage and migration dynamics in four rural communes that have “lost” significant numbers of their single women to international marriage and gained brides through internal migration. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2012 and 2013 in four villages and analysis of local marriage registration data and census data, this article examines internal and international marriage migration. We probed marriage migration vis-a-vis marriage markets, internal labor migration and gendered mobility patterns. The increased diversification of marriage with respect to spousal places of origin indicates a reconfiguration of marital norms and practices and changing social constructions of a desirable wife and daughter-in-law. Results underscore the role of labor migration and interprovincial networks in expanding mate-seeking circles among rural youth and in altering marital norms. Female international marriage migration is one piece of a larger puzzle whereby various forms of mobility are intertwined with changes in the realms of gender, family and marriage.

scholarly journals Representations and Regulations of Marriage Migration from Russia and Vietnam in the People's Republic of China

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-308
Author(s):  
Elena Barabantseva ◽  
Caroline Grillot
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
International Marriage ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
International Marriages ◽  
Affective Processes ◽  
Structures Of Feeling ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Discursive Field

Marriage migration has developed as a discursive field and a new direction of governing practices in the relations of post-Mao China with Russia and Vietnam. This article examines China's developing governing regime for international marriages from the perspective of its sovereign concerns related to border stability, population management, and national security. These concerns are considered through the analysis of material and affective processes informing and shaping the regulations and representations of marriage migration to China. This discussion not only shows how the Chinese state revises its administrative and legal terms of international marriage, but also highlights the historical, racialized, and gendered forces that shape the process. The regulatory framework of marriage migration is informed by the shifting structures of feeling shaping the contours of belonging in Chinese society. These intersecting spheres of state affective and regulatory practices signal new relations of power and inequality coalescing in China's relations with its neighbors.

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