International Marriages and Marital Citizenship: Southeast Asian Women on the Move (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073FRD6RW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 215 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the AuthorAsuncion Fresnoza-Flot is a Radboud Excellence Initiative fellow at the Centre for Migration Law / Institute for the Sociology of Law of Radboud University, the Netherlands. Gwénola Ricordeau is Associate Professor of sociology at the Lille Center for Sociological and Economic Research (CLERSE) of the University Lille 1, France
. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is a Radboud Excellence Initiative fellow at the Centre for Migration Law / Institute for the Sociology of Law of Radboud University, the Netherlands. Gwénola Ricordeau is Associate Professor of sociology at the Lille Center for Sociological and Economic Research (CLERSE) of the University Lille 1, France
These regimes influence the familial and social incorporation of Southeast Asian migrant women, notably their access to socio-political and civic rights in their receiving countries. The case studies analysed in this volume highlight these women’s subjectivity and agency as they embrace, resist, and navigate the intricate legal and socio-cultural frameworks of citizenship.As such, it will appeal to sociologists, geographers, socio-legal scholars, and anthropologists with interests in migration, family formation, intimate relations, and gender.. Drawing from ethnographic research and policy analyses, this book sheds light on the way many countries in Southeast Asia and beyond have redefined marriage and national belonging through their regime of ‘marital citizenship’ (that is, a legal status granted by a state to a migrant by virtue of his/her marriage to one of its citizens). Focusing on the case of Southeast Asian w