A Transnational Perspective on Divorce and Marriage: Filipina Wives and Workers
A Transnational Perspective on Divorce and Marriage: Filipina Wives and Workers
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离婚和婚姻的跨国视角：菲律宾妻子和工人
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10.1080/10702890304328
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2003
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通讯作者：
Nicole Constable
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作者：
Nicole Constable
在新兴的性别和跨国主义文学的基础上，本文认为菲律宾妇女的劳动和婚姻迁移是如何交织在一起的复杂和矛盾的方式与全球，地方和个人因素。这篇文章的中心是两个女人的故事，一个是在香港的菲律宾海外合同工，另一个是在菲律宾的菲律宾人，他们试图通过通信与外国婚姻伴侣见面。这些故事说明，由于菲律宾没有离婚，妇女如何创造性地跨越跨国地形，以实现其所期望的婚姻主体性。这些故事指出了女性的能动性和结构性因素的重要性，特别是法律的因素，这些因素既限制了女性，同时又允许她们创造性地利用跨国空间中的法律的不一致性，重新定义自己为妻子，并重新获得“体面的”婚姻地位。在对比的共同假设，妇女嫁给外国男子，以迁移或主要是为了物质利益，本文认为，至少在某些情况下，移民也可以作为一种手段，以实现有价值的目标（再）婚姻。
Building on the burgeoning literature on gender and transnationalism, this article considers how Filipina women's labor and marriage migrations are intertwined in complex and paradoxical ways with global, local, and personal factors. Central to the article are the stories of two women, one a Filipina overseas contract worker in Hong Kong and the other a Filipina in the Philippines who sought to meet a foreign marriage partner through correspondence. These stories illustrate how, because of the absence of divorce in the Philippines, women creatively maneuver across transnational terrain in order to realize their desired marital subjectivities. These stories point to women's agency and to the importance of structural factors-particularly legal ones-that both constrain women and yet simultaneously allow them to creatively utilize legal inconsistencies across transnational spaces to redefine themselves as wives and to reclaim a "respectable" marital status. In contrast to the common assumption that women marry foreign men in order to migrate or primarily for material gain, this article argues that-in at least some cases-migration can also serve as a means to attain the valued goal of (re)marriage.