International Marriages and Fertility in Okinawa : Reproduction strategies of family and migrant women in Tarama village

本研究从社会性别的角度探讨日本生育率最高的当代冲绳的家庭再生产方式的变化。它关注的是宫古县Tarama村商业化的国际婚姻的增加，该村因冲绳的高出生率而受到关注。调查内容包括：人口、婚姻、生育率的统计变化、冲绳男性的婚姻挤压、商业化的国际婚姻的增加、与冲绳男性结婚的亚洲各国移民女性的社会状况等。通过对11名越南籍和菲律宾籍妇女的访谈，揭示了她们的社会属性、社会处境以及与中介结婚的背景和过程。已婚移民妇女自离开祖国以来就处于负债累累的境地，国际婚姻的商业化进程剥夺了她们的自主权。另一方面，专门针对移徙妇女的行政或社会支助很少或根本没有。

This research explores the changes in the mode of family reproduction in contemporary Okinawa with the highest fertility in Japan from the perspective of gender. It focuses on the increase in commercialized international marriages in Tarama village in Miyako county, which gets attention for a high birth rate in Okinawa. The investigation content is as follows : the statistical changes in population, marriage, and fertility, the marital squeeze for Okinawan men, the increase in commercialized international marriages, and the social situation of migrant women from Asian countries who are married to Okinawan men. The interviews with eleven Vietnamese women and Filipinas show the migrant women's and their husbands social attributions as well as social situation and the background and process of marriage with some brokers. The marital migrant women, who are in the circumstances of being over head and ears in debt since they left their countries, are deprived of their autonomy by the commercialized process of international marriage. On the other hand, administrative or social supports specific to the migrant women are little to no.