tailieunhanh - Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration - Demographic Patterns and Social Issues (AUP - IIAS Publications)

Despite active scholarly interest in the phenomenon of cross-border marriage migration between Southeast and East Asia—a majority of which marriages are between men from wealthier regions and women from regions that are less economically developed—we know very little about who these women are and why they choose to marry and migrate. This volume provides an overview of the demographic patterns and social issues | Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration Demographic Patterns and Social Issues Edited by Wen-Shan Yang AND Melody Chia-Wen Lu AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY press Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration International Institute for Asian Studies Publications Series General Editor Paul van der Velde Publications Officer Martina van den Haak Editorial Board Prasenjit Duara University of Chicago Carol Gluck Columbia University Christophe Jaffrelot Centre d Etudes et de Recherches Internationales-Sciences-po Victor T. King University of Hull Yuri Sadoi Meijo University . Shamsul Institute of Occidental Studies Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Henk Schulte Nordholt Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies Wim Boot Leiden University The IIAS Publications Series consists of Monographs and Edited Volumes. The Series publishes results of research projects conducted at the International Institute for Asian Studies. Furthermore the aim of the Series is to promote interdisciplinary studies on Asia and comparative research on Asia and Europe. The International Institute for Asian Studies IIAS is a postdoctoral research centre based in Leiden and Amsterdam the Netherlands. Its objective is to encourage the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Asia and to promote national and international cooperation. The institute focuses on the humanities and social sciences and where relevant on their interaction with other sciences. It stimulates scholarship on Asia and is instrumental in forging research networks among Asia scholars worldwide. IIAS acts as an international mediator bringing various parties together working as a clearinghouse of knowledge and information. This entails activities such as providing information services hosting academic organisations dealing with Asia constructing international networks and setting up international cooperative projects and research programmes. In this way IIAS functions as a window on Europe for non-European scholars and .