Crossing Legal Boundaries through International Marriage and Migration: Analysis of Japanese Women’s Oral Histories
Crossing Legal Boundaries through International Marriage and Migration: Analysis of Japanese Women’s Oral Histories
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通过国际婚姻和移民跨越法律界限：日本女性口述历史分析
DOI：
10.1080/10371397.2017.1334194
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发表时间：
2017
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0.5
通讯作者：
M. Itoh
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作者：
M. Itoh
摘要本文探讨了日本移民妇女在澳大利亚跨国婚姻中跨越法律的、政治和社会文化界限的经历。这些数据来自对16名居住在澳大利亚并与澳大利亚公民或永久居民结婚的日本妇女的口述历史采访。澳大利亚是日本移民最受欢迎的目的地之一。特别是日本女性，作为澳大利亚公民或永久居民的配偶申请永久居留权成为了一种流行的定居方式。本文分析了女性对日本构建的社会法律制度的理解与新体验到的澳大利亚社会现实之间的交涉。妇女的谈判反映了她们跨越界限的个人方式。他们对日本社会法律的习俗--在法律的婚姻中改姓的实践为本文提供了一个焦点。我认为，个人的经验，跨越边界的形状，并嵌入在，他们的个人历史中构建在他们的原产地。从这个意义上说，他们的“跨越”行为意味着在双方之间建立一种联系，从而模糊了这些边界的刚性。
ABSTRACT This article examines the experience of crossing legal, political, and socio-cultural boundaries by Japanese migrant women in international marriages in Australia. The data is drawn from oral history interviews with 16 Japanese women living in Australia and married to Australian citizens or permanent residents. Australia is one of the most popular destinations for Japanese emigrants. For Japanese women in particular, applying for permanent residency as a spouse of an Australian citizen or permanent resident has been a popular settlement path. I analyze the women’s negotiations between their perceptions of socio-legal systems constructed in Japan and their newly experienced social reality in Australia. The women’s negotiations reflect their individual ways of crossing boundaries. Their practices of the Japanese socio-legal custom of changing one’s surname at the time of legal marriage provide a focus for the article. I argue that individuals’ experiences of crossing boundaries are shaped by, and embedded in, their personal histories constructed in their land of origin. In this sense, their act of ‘crossing’ means creating a connection between both sides whereby the rigidity of these boundaries is blurred.