edited by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gwénola Ricordeau.
London ; New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2017.
(xix, 203 pages).
Studies in migration and diaspora.
Introduction : international marriages of Southeast Asian women through the lens of citizenship / Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gwenola Ricordeau -- PART I. Contact paths and routes to family formation -- 1. Marriage migration as a pathway to citizenship : Filipina brides, economic security, and ideas of global hypergamy / Julia Meszaros -- 2. Time-embedded marital citizenship : Thai migrant women and their mixed unions in Belgium / Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot -- PART II. The politics of love and desire -- 3. Reconciling marital citizenship in Malaysia through activism : gender, motherhood, and belongingness / Low Choo Chin -- 4. The 'mail-order bride' stigma : intermarried Filipino women and the Philippine public and political debates / Gwenola Ricordeau -- 5. Female migrant spouses as deserving subjects of rights : migrant women and Taiwan's gender-equal courtrooms / Hsiu-Yu (Tori) Fan -- PART III. Settlement and multifaceted roles in a new land -- 6. Postcolonial desires, partial citizenship, and transnational 'un-mothers' : contexts and lives of Filipina marriage migrants in Japan / Nobue Suzuki -- 7. Stigmatized love, boundary-making, and the heroic love myth: Filipina women constructing relationships with US military men within and beyond the legal framework / Victoria Reyes -- 8. She cares because she is a mother : the intersection of citizenship and motherhood of Southeast Asian immigrant women in Taiwan / Isabelle Cheng -- 9. A two-step social integration model for transnational marriage migrants in Taiwan and South Korea : 'marital family first, host society second' / Hsin-Chieh Chang -- Conclusion : making sense of international marriages / Asuncion Fresznoza-Flot and Gwenola Ricordeau.