1st Edition
Cross-border Marriages and Mobility Female Chinese Migrants and Hong Kong Men
By Avital Binah-Pollak
Copyright 2019
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Cross-border Marriages and Mobility: Female Chinese Migrants and Hong Kong Men focuses on cross-border marriages between mainland Chinese women and Hong Kong men, a phenomenon which is of critical importance to the transformation of Hong Kong. By examining the women's motivations for migration and lived experiences in relation to the discursive, political, economic, and social circumstances of... Read more
Introduction, Chapter One: The Hong Kong China Border: A Space of Confinement and Movement, Chapter Two: Motivations for Crossing Borders, Chapter Three: Same as Before, Living as a House Wife, Chapter Four: Hong Kong's Education: A Bridge to the 'First World', Chapter Five: New voices in Hong Kong: Local identity formation, Concluding Thoughts: Home is not where the heart is but where it wants to be, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Dr. Avital Binah-Pollak is currently a faculty member at the Humanities and Arts department at the Technion in Haifa. She is a socio-cultural anthropologist with an emphasis on gender, migration, boundaries, and education in contemporary China and Hong Kong.
