For Better or For Worse : : Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy /

For Better or For Worse : : Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy / / Hung Cam Thai.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Thai, Hung Cam,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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