Over the past three decades, scholars have paid greater attention to the intensification and
complex interconnectivity of local and global processes. Anthropological studies of cross …

In the last two decades, the growth of intra‐regional marriage migration in Asia has
stimulated scholarly interest in destination countries. Marriage migration led to social …

The Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series covers three important aspects of the
migration progress: firstly, the determinants, dynamics and characteristics of international …

The twenty-first century seems to be on the move, perhaps even more so than the last, with
cheap travel and more than two billion cars projected worldwide for 2030. And yet, all this …

In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social,
economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy …

Ethnographers from anthropology, sociology, and other disciplines have been at the
forefront of efforts to bring gender into scholarship on international and transnational …

By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage
trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern …

Care has come to dominate much feminist research on globalized migrations and the
transfer of labor from the South to the North, while the older concept of reproduction had …

In this final chapter, I will round up my argument and propose four themes that have come
out of this study. First, I argue for the value of analysis of the balance of structure and agency …

A black and white photograph in the collections of the National Japanese American
Historical Society shows a group of 12 Japanese women in kimonos and shawls, with high …