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What do you think of those Russian brides? What do they think of YOU? International marriages bring a substantial number of newcomers to the US and contribute to the transformation of the basic institution of society - the family. When men are from Mars and women are aliens, the marital dynamic can be quite dramatic. A Russian-born journalist, Ms. Popova shines a blinding light on some of the amusing and amazing oddities that are revealed when an outsider takes a blunt look at how we live.

Intercountry marriage --- Men --- Women --- Women immigrants --- Russians --- Russians in the United States --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Binational marriage --- International marriage --- Marriages, International --- Marriage --- Foreign spouses --- Social conditions. --- Popova, Elena,

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Dieses Buch ist eine empirische Studie, die individuelle Gründe für spezifische Sprachpraktiken und für die Verhandlung und Performanz hybrider Identitäten innerhalb der intimsten "Community of Practice (CofP)", der Ehe, untersucht. Die der Studie zugrundeliegenden Daten stammen zum einen aus ethnographischen Beobachtungen, die über drei Jahre durchgeführt wurden; zum anderen aus Interviews mit interkulturellen Paaren, genauer mit Personen englischer Muttersprache, die mit deutschsprachigen SchweizerInnen verheiratet sind und in einer diglossen Sprachregion in der Zentralschweiz leben. Die Studie nimmt eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive ein, welche sich dem soziokulturellen linguistischen Zugang zu Identität und der sozialpsychologischen Theorie des "Positioning" bedient. Der neuartige theoretische Ansatz dieses Buches besteht aus der Rekonzeptualisierung von Identität, da die emische Perspektive der UntersuchungsteilnehmerInnen miteinbezogen wird. Diese können sich nämlich nicht von der sozial konstruierten Idee einer stabilen Identität trennen, obwohl sie zugeben, Teil gewisser soziokultureller Darstellungen zu sein. Die Analyse zeigt, wie Individuen ihre statischen und dynamischen Identitäten diskursiv konstruieren. Weiter wird die Bedeutung expliziter wie auch impliziter Identitätsansprüche individueller TeilnehmerInnen hervorgehoben und durch die Unterscheidung zweier Arten von Identität - situated und situationalidentities - illustriert. Die Ansichten der TeilnehmerInnen selbst fügt eine weitere Ebene zu jeglicher soziologischen, anthropologischen und linguistischen Analyse von Menschen in Diasporas hinzu. Während postmoderne Definitionen Identität als multivalent betrachten und die interaktionale Soziolinguistik Identität als emergent versteht, wird hier für eine Auseinandersetzung mit Identität argumentiert, welche essentialistische Vorstellungen nicht verwirft, da sich Individuen selbst mehrheitlich als gefestigte und einheitliche Persönlichkeiten verstehen. This book presents an empirical study that examines individuals' reasons for specific language practices and investigates the negotiation and performances of hybrid identities within the most intimate community of practice (CofP), the marital unit. The data stem from ethnographic observation over a three-year period as well as recorded conversations with intercultural couples, namely Anglophones married to native German-speaking Swiss, who reside in central Switzerland, where a diglossic situation prevails. This study is placed within an interdisciplinary framework that draws on the sociocultural linguistic approach to identity and the social psychological theory of positioning. The novel approach on which this book focuses is the re-conceptualization of identity by considering participants' emic perspectives since individuals cannot part with the idea of a socially constructed notion of a stable identity despite admitting to engaging in certain socio-cultural practices. The analysis shows how individuals discursively construct their static and dynamic identities. It emphasizes the importance of individuals' explicit identity claims as well as their implicit identity claims illustrating a clear distinction between two types of identities, termed situated and situational. This book argues that participants' views add another level to any sociological, anthropological and linguistic analyses of diasporic individuals. While post-modern definitions of identity are understood as multivalent and interactional sociolinguistic studies view identity as emergent, this study shows that any discussion of identity should not discard the notion of essentialism since individuals more often construct themselves and each other as stable and unitary beings within the context of social interaction.

Interethnic marriage. --- Intercountry marriage. --- Cultural relations. --- Interracial marriage. --- Racially mixed people. --- Bi-racial people --- Biracial people --- Interracial people --- Mixed race people --- Mixed-racial people --- Mulattoes --- Multiracial people --- Peoples of mixed descent --- Ethnic groups --- Miscegenation --- Intermarriage --- Cultural exchange --- Intercultural relations --- Intellectual cooperation --- International relations --- Binational marriage --- International marriage --- Marriages, International --- Marriage --- Foreign spouses --- Ethnic intermarriage

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Exceptional States examines new configurations of marriage, immigration, and sovereignty emerging in an increasingly mobile Asia where Cold War legacies continue to shape contemporary political struggles over sovereignty and citizenship. Focused on marital immigration from China to Taiwan, the book documents the struggles of these women and men as they seek acceptance and recognition in their new home. Through tracing parallels between the predicaments of Chinese marital immigrants and the uncertain future of the Taiwan nation-state, the book shows how intimate attachments and emotional investments infuse the governmental practices of Taiwanese bureaucrats charged with regulating immigration and producing citizenship and sovereignty. Its attention to a group of immigrants whose exceptional status has become necessary to Taiwan's national integrity exposes the social, political, and subjective consequences of life on the margins of citizenship and sovereignty.

Citizenship --- Self-determination, National --- Intercountry marriage --- Foreign spouses --- Chinese --- Women immigrants --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- National self-determination --- Nationalism --- Nation-state --- Nationalities, Principle of --- Sovereignty --- Binational marriage --- International marriage --- Marriages, International --- Marriage --- Alien spouses --- Foreign national spouses --- Spouses --- Ethnology --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Political aspects --- Social conditions. --- Law and legislation --- China --- Taiwan --- Foreign relations --- Noncitizen spouses --- asian studies. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese marital immigrants. --- chinese spouses. --- citizenship. --- cold war asia. --- contemporary politics in asia. --- female chinese immigrants. --- female emigrants from china. --- foreign spouses taiwan. --- immigrant chinese women. --- immigration china to taiwan. --- immigration. --- intercountry marriage. --- marital immigration. --- marriage and family china. --- marriage and family taiwan. --- marrying to immigrate. --- taiwan. --- taiwanese citizenship. --- taiwanese immigration. --- taiwanese sovereignty.

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There have always been mail-order brides in America--but we haven't always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called "Tobacco Wives" of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today's modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore the advantages and disadvantages of mail-order marriage. It's a history of deception, physical abuse, and failed unions. It's also the story of how mail-order marriage can offer women surprising and empowering opportunities. Drawing on a forgotten trove of colorful mail-order marriage court cases, Zug explores the many troubling legal issues that arise in mail-order marriage: domestic abuse and murder, breach of contract, fraud (especially relating to immigration), and human trafficking and prostitution. She tells the story of how mail-order marriage lost the benign reputation it enjoyed in the Civil War era to become more and more reviled over time, and she argues compellingly that it does not entirely deserve its current reputation. While it is a common misperception that women turn to mail-order marriage as a desperate last resort, most mail-order brides are enticed rather than coerced. Since the first mail-order brides arrived on American shores in 1619, mail-order marriage has enabled women to improve both their marital prospects and their legal, political, and social freedoms. Buying A Bride uncovers this history and shows us how mail-order marriage empowers women and should be protected and even encouraged.

Mail order brides --- Marriage brokerage --- Marriage --- 392.4/.5 <73> "19" --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Brokage, Marriage --- Brokerage, Marriage --- Brokers, Marriage --- Arranged marriage --- Mate selection --- Picture brides --- Brides --- Foreign spouses --- History. --- Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--20ste eeuw --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History of North America --- Family & Marriage --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- History --- LAW / Family Law / Marriage.

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Marriage, Migration and Gender brings a gender-sensitive and comparative. perspective to bear on Asian peoples` migration experiences, both within and across. national borders. It seeks to examine how the institution of marriage may affect. or enable women`s and men`s migration, as well as the impact of migration, state. laws and immigration procedures on the marriage, family and kinship networks of. Asian migrants. Migration and marriage strategies are discussed through detailed case studies,. whether of Filipina (allegedly `mail-order`) brides, transnational Tamil Brahmins,. Pakistani grooms

Arranged marriage. --- Asians --- Globalization --- Intercountry marriage. --- Marriage --- Marriage brokerage --- Binational marriage --- International marriage --- Marriages, International --- Foreign spouses --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- Social aspects. --- Arranged marriage --- Intercountry marriage --- 305 --- 314.7 --- 316.356.2 --- 316.356.2 Gezinssociologie --- Gezinssociologie --- 305 Genderstudies. Rol van de sekse. Gender. Personen vanuit interdisciplinair gezichtspunt --- Genderstudies. Rol van de sekse. Gender. Personen vanuit interdisciplinair gezichtspunt --- 314.7 Migratie. Geografische mobiliteit. Verhuizingen--(demografie) --- Migratie. Geografische mobiliteit. Verhuizingen--(demografie) --- Social aspects --- Marriage brokerage. --- Women immigrants --- Emigration and immigration --- Social conditions. --- Brokage, Marriage --- Brokerage, Marriage --- Brokers, Marriage --- Mate selection --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants