1st Edition

Marriage Migration, Family and Citizenship in Asia

Edited By Tuen Yi Chiu, Brenda S.A. Yeoh Copyright 2023
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

Amidst the increasing global trend of cross-border marriage migration, this book offers timely theoretical and empirical insights into contemporary debates about migration and citizenship. Extant scholarship on marriage migration and citizenship have concentrated on East-West inter-cultural marriages and tended to approach citizenship as an individual-centred concept linked to the nation-state,... Read more

Introduction: Marriage migration, family and citizenship in Asia

Tuen Yi Chiu and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

1. Transnational marriage migration and the negotiation of precarious pathways beyond partial citizenship in Singapore

Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Heng Leng Chee, Rohini Anant and Theodora Lam

2. Penalizing ‘runaway’ migrant wives: commercial cross-border marriages and home space as confinement

Sohoon Yi

3. Discretionary maternal citizenship: state hegemony and resistance of single marriage migrant mothers from mainland China to Hong Kong

Tuen Yi Chiu

4. From ‘social problems’ to ‘social assets’: geopolitics, discursive shifts in children of Southeast Asian marriage migrants, and mother-child dyadic citizenship in Taiwan

Hsiao-Chuan Hsia

5. Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of Vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy

Isabelle Cheng

6. Negotiating citizenship and reforging Muslim identities: the case of young women of Japanese-Pakistani Parentage

Masako Kudo

Afterword

Katharine Charsley

Biography

Tuen Yi Chiu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She is a sociologist specialising in migration, gender, family, and ageing. Her research focuses on cross-border marriage migration, transnational ageing, intimate partner violence, and intergenerational relations.

Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Research Leader, Asian Migration Cluster, at NUS' Asia Research Institute. Her research interests in Asian migrations span themes including social reproduction and care migration; skilled migration and cosmopolitanism; and marriage migrants and cultural politics.