For Better or For Worse : : Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy / / Hung Cam Thai.
Marriage is currently the number-one reason people migrate to the United States, and women constitute the majority of newcomers joining husbands who already reside here. But little is known about these marriage and migration streams beyond the highly publicized and often sensationalized phenomena of...
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Thai, Hung Cam, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut For Better or For Worse : Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy / Hung Cam Thai. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2008] ©2008 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The intimate details of globalization -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction: Marriage and Migration in the New Global Economy -- Chapter 1. The Gift of Modernity -- Chapter 2. Convertibility -- Chapter 3. Globalization as a Gender Strategy -- Chapter 4. The Matchmaker -- Chapter 5. Money -- Chapter 6. The Two Unmarriageables -- Chapter 7. The Highly Marriageables -- Conclusion: For Better or For Worse -- Appendix A: Reflections on Methodology -- Appendix B: Characteristics of the Sample -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Marriage is currently the number-one reason people migrate to the United States, and women constitute the majority of newcomers joining husbands who already reside here. But little is known about these marriage and migration streams beyond the highly publicized and often sensationalized phenomena of mail-order and military brides. Less commonly known is that most international couples are immigrants of the same ethnicity. In For Better or For Worse, Hung Cam Thai takes a closer look at marriage and migration, with a specific focus on the unions between Vietnamese men living in the United States and the women who marry them. Weaving together a series of personal stories, he underscores the ironies and challenges that these unions face. He includes the voices of working-class immigrant men dealing with marginalization in their adopted country. These men speak about wanting "traditional" wives who they hope will recognize their gendered authority. Meanwhile, young Vietnamese college-educated women, undesirable to bachelors in their own country who are seeking subservient wives, express a preference for men of the same ethnicity but with a more liberal outlook on gender-men they imagine they will find in the United States. A sense of foreboding pervades the book as Thai captures the incompatible viewpoints of the couples who appear to be separated not only geographically but ideologically. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Globalization Social aspects. Marriage. Vietnamese diaspora. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110688610 print 9780813542881 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813544687 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813544687 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813544687/original |
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