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Women household employees --- Foreign workers, Philippine --- Employées de maison --- Travailleurs étrangers phillipins --- S27/0800 --- S27/0815 --- S27/0825 --- Hong Kong--Society in general --- Hong Kong--Society in transition --- Hong Kong--Labour conditions and trade unions --- Foreign workers, Filipino --- Employées de maison --- Travailleurs étrangers phillipins --- Filipinos --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Household employees --- Alien labor, Philippine --- Filipino foreign workers --- Philippine foreign workers --- Philippinos --- Pilipinos --- Ethnology --- Employment --- Foreign countries

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Illuminating how international marriages are negotiated, arranged, and experienced, Cross-Border Marriages is the first book to chart marital migrations involving women and men of diverse national, ethnic, and class backgrounds. The migrations studied here cross geographical borders of provinces, rural-urban borders within nation-states, and international boundaries, including those of China, Japan, South Korea, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, the United States, and Canada. Looking at assumptions about the connection between international marriages and poverty, opportunism, and women's mobility, the book draws attention to ideas about global patterns of inequality that are thought to pressure poor women to emigrate to richer countries, while simultaneously suggesting the limitations of such views.Breaking from studies that regard the international bride as a victim of circumstance and the mechanisms of international marriage as traffic in commodified women, these essays challenge any simple idea of global hypergamy and present a nuanced understanding where a variety of factors, not the least of which is desire, come into play. Indeed, most contemporary marriage-scapes involve women who relocate in order to marry; rarely is it the men. But Nicole Constable and the volume contributors demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, these brides are not necessarily poor, nor do they categorically marry men who are above them on the socioeconomic ladder.Although often women may appear to be moving "up" from a less developed country to a more developed one, they do not necessarily move higher on the chain of economic resources. Complicating these and other assumptions about international marriages, the essays in this volume draw from interviews and rich ethnographic materials to examine women's and men's agency, their motivations for marriage, and the importance of familial pressures and obligations, cultural imaginings, fantasies, and desires, in addition to personal and economic factors.Border-crossing marriages are significant for what they reveal about the intersection of local and global processes in the everyday lives of women and men whose marital opportunities variably yield both rich possibilities and bitter disappointments.

Intercountry marriage --- Asian women --- Asians --- Intercountry marriage. --- Social mobility. --- Mobilité sociale --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Asia --- Women --- Social mobility --- Binational marriage --- International marriage --- Marriages, International --- Marriage --- Foreign spouses --- Mobility, Social --- Sociology --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- Anthropology. --- Folklore. --- Linguistics. --- Mariage international --- Femmes --- Mobilité sociale --- Emigration et immigration --- Transferts de population --- Asie --- Émigration et immigration --- Population

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By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner. Through the experiences of those engaged in pen pal relationships-their stories of love, romance, migration, and long-distance dating-this book conveys the richness and dignity of women's and men's choices without reducing these correspondents to calculating opportunists or naive romantics. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, Romance on a Global Stage questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.

Intercountry marriage --- Marriage brokerage --- Mail order brides --- Asians --- International correspondence --- Correspondence, International --- Friendship letters --- Letter writing --- Pen pals --- Picture brides --- Brides --- Foreign spouses --- Brokage, Marriage --- Brokerage, Marriage --- Brokers, Marriage --- Arranged marriage --- Mate selection --- Binational marriage --- International marriage --- Marriages, International --- Marriage --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Asia --- America --- american men. --- asian women. --- chinese women. --- cultural perspective. --- eastern european women. --- email order spouses. --- ethnographers. --- fieldwork. --- filipinas. --- globalization. --- internet ethnography. --- internet. --- latin american women. --- life partners. --- long distance dating. --- love and romance. --- mail order marriages. --- matching up. --- matchmaking. --- migration. --- misconceptions. --- nonfiction. --- online courtship. --- pen pals. --- stereotypes. --- transnational marriage. --- virtual ethnography. --- western men.

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Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today over 120,000 women from the Philippines, over 90,000 from Indonesia, and thousands more from other parts of South and Southeast Asia serve as maids on two-year contracts in Hong Kong, sending much needed remittances to their families abroad. Nicole Constable tells their story by updating Maid to Order in Hong Kong with a focus on the major changes that have taken place since Hong Kong's reunification with mainland China in 1997, the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003. Interweaving her analysis with the women's individual stories, she shows how power is expressed in the day-to-day lives of Filipina domestic workers and more-recent Indonesian arrivals.

Women foreign workers --- Indonesians --- Filipinos --- Foreign workers, Indonesian --- Foreign workers, Filipino --- Women household employees --- Alien labor, Philippine --- Filipino foreign workers --- Foreign workers, Philippine --- Philippine foreign workers --- Foreign women workers --- Women alien labor --- Migrant women labor (Foreign workers) --- Migrant women workers (Foreign workers) --- Women migrant labor (Foreign workers) --- Women migrant workers (Foreign workers) --- Foreign workers --- Women employees --- Ethnology --- Philippinos --- Pilipinos --- Alien labor, Indonesian --- Indonesian foreign workers --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Household employees --- Employment

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