:For Better or For Worse: Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy
:For Better or For Worse: Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy
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：无论好坏：新全球经济中的越南国际婚姻
DOI：
10.1086/605745
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发表时间：
2009
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F. Garip
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F. Garip
在全球联系日益紧密的时代，了解移民与原籍地的联系对于预测国际移徙流动的后果至关重要。输出社区和接收社区之间持久联系的一个表现是，移民，主要是男子，在本国寻找配偶的全球趋势。在For Better or For Worse中，Hung Cam Thai专注于越南女性和生活在西方国家的越南男性之间的国际婚姻，以确定导致国际婚姻市场的社会，人口，经济和文化过程，并最终持续连接到母国和东道国。海外越南男子，称为Viet Kieu，通常前往越南，由亲属网络安排婚姻，然后返回其居住地，为其妻子办理移民手续。泰国对69名来自西贡市区和世隆农村的新婚妻子进行了深入采访，当时她们正在越南等待海外文书工作的完成。在这些居住在八个不同国家的丈夫中，泰伊只采访了那些居住在美国的丈夫。他的目标是从越南妻子和海外丈夫的角度出发，为跨国婚姻制定理论基础。这本书的中心论点是双重的：首先，跨国婚姻的动机是越南和美国的人口构成和男女性别期望的不平衡。第二，两国个人相对地位的差异促进了婚姻，这导致了原本不可能的结合。在讲述他的受访者的故事时，泰文提出了对几个案例的深入分析，而不是几个案例的拼凑。这种方法虽然不寻常，但很好地阐明了他的观点。他专注于
In an era of increasing global connectivity, understanding immigrants’ ties to their places of origin has become critical to anticipating the consequences of international migration flows. One manifestation of enduring ties between sending and receiving communities is the global trend of immigrants, mostly men, seeking spouses in their home countries. In For Better or For Worse, Hung Cam Thai focuses on international marriages between women in Vietnam and Vietnamese men living in Western countries in order to pinpoint the social, demographic, economic, and cultural processes leading to an international marriage market and ultimately to ongoing connections spanning home and host countries. Overseas Vietnamese men, called Viet Kieu, typically go to Vietnam for a marriage arranged by kin networks and then return to their places of residence to initiate the immigration process for their wives. Thai conducted in-depth interviews with 69 newly wed wives from urban Saigon and rural Se Long while they were waiting in Vietnam for the overseas paperwork to clear. Among the husbands, who resided in eight different countries, Thai interviewed only those living in the United States. His goal was to map out the rationales for international marriages, as seen from the perspectives of wives in Vietnam and husbands overseas. The central argument of the book is twofold: first, international marriages are motivated by the imbalances in demographic composition and gender expectations between men and women in Vietnam and the United States. Second, marriages are facilitated by the disparities in relative status of individuals in the two countries, which lead to otherwise unlikely couplings. When recounting his interviewees’ stories, Thai presents in-depth analysis of a few cases, rather than a patchwork of several. This method, albeit unusual, works well to illuminate his points. He focuses on the