1st Edition

Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts

Edited By Zheng Mu, Wei-Jun Jean Yeung Copyright 2022
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses how Asian migrants adapt and assimilate into their host societies, and how this assimilation differs across their sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts. The diversities in Asian migrants’ assimilation trajectories challenge the assumption that given time, migrants will eventually integrate holistically into their host societies. This book... Read more

1. Introduction

Wei- Jun Jean Yeung and Zheng Mu

2. Generation, education, and intermarriage of Asian Americans

Zhenchao Qian and Yue Qian

3. Love in the melting pot: ethnic intermarriage in Jakarta

Ariane J. Utomo

4. Internal migration, marriage timing and assortative mating: a mixed- method study in China

Zheng Mu and Wei- Jun Jean Yeung

5. Do gender systems in the origin and destination societies affect immigrant integration? Vietnamese marriage migrants in Taiwan and South Korea

Hsin- Chieh Chang

6. Happiness of female immigrants in cross- border marriages in Taiwan

Chun- Hao Li and Wenshan Yang

7. Physical versus imagined communities: migration and women’s autonomy in India

Esha Chatterjee and Sonalde Desai

8. The decoupling of legal and spatial migration of female marriage migrants

Tuen Yi Chiu and Susanne Y. P. Choi

9. Marital dissolution of transnational couples in South Korea

Yool Choi, Doo- Sub Kim and Jungkyun Ryu

10. Transnational divorces in Singapore: experiences of low- income divorced marriage migrant women

Sharon Ee Ling Quah

11. Remarriages and transnational marriages in Hong Kong: implications and challenges

Mengni Chen and Paul Yip

Biography

Zheng Mu is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include trends, social determinants, and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with focus on how marriage and family serve as major inequality-generating mechanisms.

Wei-Jun Jean Yeung is Provost-Chair Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. She is the founding Director of the Centre for Family and Population Research and the Cluster Leader of the Changing Family in Asia research cluster in the Asia Research Institute at NUS.