Vulnerable brides and transnational ghar damads:: Gender, risk and 'adjustment' among Pakistani marriage migrants to Britain
Vulnerable brides and transnational ghar damads:: Gender, risk and 'adjustment' among Pakistani marriage migrants to Britain
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10.1177/097152150501200210
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发表时间：
2005-05-01
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0.4
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Charsley, K
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作者：
Charsley, K
本文基于对巴基斯坦和英国布里斯托尔市的研究，探讨了英国出生的巴基斯坦人和巴基斯坦国民之间日益普遍的跨国婚姻做法，其中后者通常移民到英国与配偶团聚。信息提供者和文献强调了妇女在婚姻中面临的风险，而跨国婚姻中移徙新娘的出生地和婚姻家庭之间的距离增加可能会加剧这些风险。然而，在文化上不寻常的情况下，移居丈夫与妻子团聚所面临的挑战却很少受到关注。这些问题从婚姻和移民的文化模式、婚姻“调整”和妥协的期望不对称、男性气质和招赘女婿（ghar damad）的地位等方面进行了考察。有人认为，这种认识到性别关系特征的方法对于理解跨国婚姻的动态有很大贡献，包括对以丈夫暴力或遗弃而结束的婚姻的见解。
Based on research in Pakistan and the English city of Bristol, this article examines the increasingly common practice of transnational marriages between British-born Pakistanis and Pakistani nationals, in which the latter normally migrate to join their spouses in the UK. Informants and the literature stress the risks faced by women in marriage, and these may be heightened by the increased distance between migrant brides' natal and marital homes in transnational marriages. The challenges faced by migrant husbands in the culturally unusual position of moving to join their wives have, however, received far less attention. These are examined in terms of cultural models of marriage and migration, asymmetry in expectations of marital 'adjustment' and compromise, masculinity and the position of the uxorilocally resident son-in-law (ghar damad). It is suggested that this approach, which recognises the relational character of gender, has much to contribute to the understanding of the dynamics of transnational marriages, including insights on marriages that have ended with the husband's violence or desertion.