The Politics of International Marriage in Japan / / Viktoriya Kim, Beverley Anne Yamamoto, Nelia G. Balgoa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Kim, Viktoriya,; Balgoa, Nelia G.,; Yamamoto, Beverley Anne,
• MitwirkendeR: Berta, Péter,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 11 tables

This book provides an in-depth exploration and analysis of marriages between Japanese nationals and migrants from three broad ethnic/cultural groups - spouses from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries. It reveals how the marriage migrants navigate the intricacies and trajectories of their marriages with Japanese people while living in Japan. Seen from the lens of ‘gendered geographies of power’, the book explores how state-level politics and policies towards marriage, migration, and gender affect the personal power politics in operation within the relationships of these international couples. Overall, the book discusses how ethnic identity intersects with gender in the negotiation of spaces and power relations between and amongst couples; and the role states and structural inequalities play in these processes, resulting in a reconfiguration of our notions of what international marriages are and how powerful gender and the state are in understanding the power relations in these unions.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Cross-Border Marriage Studies -- 2 International Marriages, Past and Present -- 3 Spousal Choices -- 4 The Politics of Love -- 5 Spaces for Negotiation -- 6 Choices and Constraints -- 7 Raising Bilingual/Bicultural Children -- 8 International Divorce -- Appendix: List of Research Participants -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors