The arranged transnational cousin marriages of British Pakistanis: critique, dissent and cultural continuity
The arranged transnational cousin marriages of British Pakistanis: critique, dissent and cultural continuity
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英国巴基斯坦人包办的跨国表亲婚姻：批评、异议和文化连续性
DOI：
10.1080/09584930600955317
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
A. Shaw
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作者：
A. Shaw
与“家乡”的亲属联系一直是巴基斯坦移民和定居英国的核心。自第一阶段移民开始以来的50年里，这些联系主要是通过跨国包办婚姻的常见做法来维持和重新建立的，其中大多数涉及第一代表兄弟。本文概述并评论了对这一社会趋势的几种批评。它描述了安排的跨国表亲婚姻如何成为英国文化差异的一个关键象征，在那里它与文化，社会和生物伤害的话语联系在一起。借鉴最近的实地调查与夫妇的旁遮普和巴基斯坦管理的克什米尔家庭起源的跨国婚姻，本文提供了对这些批评的评论。本文揭示了跨国婚姻选择背后的动机的复杂性，并表明，尽管目前的批评，风险的平衡继续有利于这种动态和越来越多的谈判社会实践。
Abstract Links with kin ‘back home’ have been central to Pakistani migration and settlement in Britain. Fifty years since the first phase of migration began, these links are maintained and re-created most centrally through the common practice of arranged transnational marriage, mostly involving first cousins. This paper outlines and comments on several strands of critique of this social trend. It describes how arranged transnational cousin marriage has become a key symbol of cultural difference within Britain, where it is linked with discourses of cultural, social and biological harm. Drawing on recent fieldwork with couples of Punjabi and Pakistan-administered Kashmiri family origins in transnational marriages, the paper provides a commentary on these critiques. The paper reveals the complexity of motivations behind transnational marriage choices, and suggests that, despite the current critiques, the balance of risks continues to favour this dynamic and increasingly negotiated social practice.