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Between Care and Criminality
Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare
Rutgers University Press
Between Care and Criminality examines Australian social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in an era of intensified border control. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how social welfare practitioners carry out a migrant-targeted social policy designed to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law which criminalized the practice.
Chinese Marriages in Transition
From Patriarchy to New Familism
By Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen
Rutgers University Press
Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the nuanced and multidirectional nature of the transformations in Chinese marriage, gender roles, and family. Using complex and large-scale historical national data as well as comprehensive data from multiple countries, Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen demonstrate that Chinese new familism consists of values both old and new.
Enduring Polygamy
Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis
Rutgers University Press
Enduring Polygamy explores sweeping social changes in urban Africa through the lens of plural marriage. The book offers insights into gender dynamics and the cultural, economic, and political factors affecting how, when, and why people marry. The bookoffers an open-minded but unflinching perspective on a contested but resilient form of marriage.
Arranged Marriage
The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change
Edited by Péter Berta
Rutgers University Press
Arranged Marriage shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation; how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, consent, and choice work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage; and how this type of marriage can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic and other desires, needs, and constraints.
Opting Out
Women Messing with Marriage around the World
Edited by Joanna Davidson and Dinah Hannaford
Rutgers University Press
Opting Out offers sensitive and powerful ethnographic portrayals of women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who are quietly opting out of marriage. Across these diverse geographic contexts,this edited volume shows that women are the (often unwitting, mostly unacknowledged) protagonists of profound changes in marriage, gender, and kinship.
Opting Out
Women Messing with Marriage around the World
Edited by Joanna Davidson and Dinah Hannaford
Rutgers University Press
Opting Out offers sensitive and powerful ethnographic portrayals of women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who are quietly opting out of marriage. Across these diverse geographic contexts,this edited volume shows that women are the (often unwitting, mostly unacknowledged) protagonists of profound changes in marriage, gender, and kinship.
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century
A Global Perspective
Edited by Erin E. Stiles and Ayang Utriza Yakin
Rutgers University Press
Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century takes a close look at the ways that Muslims from West Africa to Southeast Asia engage with and navigate Islamic law and other relevant norms during times of marital breakdown in light of twenty-first century challenges and development.
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century
A Global Perspective
Edited by Erin E. Stiles and Ayang Utriza Yakin
Rutgers University Press
Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century takes a close look at the ways that Muslims from West Africa to Southeast Asia engage with and navigate Islamic law and other relevant norms during times of marital breakdown in light of twenty-first century challenges and development.
Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea
Reflections and Future Directions
Edited by Minjeong Kim and Hyeyoung Woo
Rutgers University Press
Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea: Reflections and Future Directions aims to reinvigorate contemporary discussions about Korean families that include immigrants by expanding the scope of what we consider to be multicultural families to include the families of undocumented migrant workers, divorced marriage immigrants, the families of Korean women with immigrant husbands, and by providing a nuanced look at their lives in Korea, not as newcomers but as first-generation immigrants.
Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration
Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights
Edited by Anne-Marie D'Aoust
Rutgers University Press
This multidisciplinary collection investigates how marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny for control and exclusion in several states around the world. Covering cases across several countries, contributors offer a compelling multidisciplinary perspective on the interplay between security, citizenship and rights as experienced by migrants, policymakers, and actors who negotiate encounters with the state.
Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration
Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights
Edited by Anne-Marie D'Aoust
Rutgers University Press
This multidisciplinary collection investigates how marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny for control and exclusion in several states around the world. Covering cases across several countries, contributors offer a compelling multidisciplinary perspective on the interplay between security, citizenship and rights as experienced by migrants, policymakers, and actors who negotiate encounters with the state.
The Politics of International Marriage in Japan
Rutgers University Press
Focusing on three cultural/ethnic groups in terms of empirical data - women from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries - this book highlights the complex interplay between national, cultural, gender, and ethnicity boundary maintenance that constructs international marriages in Japan at multiple levels, providing a comprehensive account of international marriage in the contemporary Japanese context.
Intimate Connections
Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s High Mountains
Rutgers University Press
Intimate Connections dissects changing ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of northern Pakistan. It offers deep insights into the affective lives of local Shia women, gender practices, and young couples’ mobile phone relationships in South Asia as well as in the wider Muslim world.
Intimate Connections
Love and Marriage in Pakistan's High Mountains
Rutgers University Press
Intimate Connections dissects changing ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of northern Pakistan. It offers deep insights into the affective lives of local Shia women, gender practices, and young couples’ mobile phone relationships in South Asia as well as in the wider Muslim world.
Global Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages
Religion, Gender, and Belonging
Edited by Yafa Shanneik and Annelies Moors
Rutgers University Press
This edited volume brings together contributions of authors who engage with the marriages of Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. With the wide geographical spread, the book offers the first comparative study of the diverse ways in which Shi'a Muslims enter into marriage.
Global Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages
Religion, Gender, and Belonging
Edited by Yafa Shanneik and Annelies Moors
Rutgers University Press
This edited volume brings together contributions of authors who engage with the marriages of Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. With the wide geographical spread, the book offers the first comparative study of the diverse ways in which Shi'a Muslims enter into marriage.
Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration
Spousal Relationships among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom
Rutgers University Press
This ethical and poetical ethnography analyzes the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, Somali migrants find "everything" to be "different, mixed up, upside down." The book finds that the most significant catalysts for challenging harmful gender practices are a combination of the welfare system and Islamic praxis.
Learning to Love
Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora
By Raksha Pande
Rutgers University Press
Learning to Love explores the everyday marriage narratives of the British-Indian diaspora. It unpacks the phenomenon of arranged marriages beyond its pejorative stereotypes by highlighting the diversity of interpersonal and emotional negotiations involved in their practice. Using in-depth ethnographic description, the book shows that far from being a homogeneous tradition, arranged marriages involve a variety of different matchmaking practices modified to suit modern diasporic identities.
Making the Right Choice
Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka
Rutgers University Press
Making the Right Choice is an intimate portrait of the politics of marriage and gender narrated through the life-histories of three generations of Sinhala-Buddhist families living in urban Sri Lanka. The book demonstrates that marriage is a privileged site to investigate questions about gendered selves, gendered agency, and modern subjectivities.
Mediating the Uprising
Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
Rutgers University Press
Based on intensive fieldwork in Damascus and Beirut, Mediating the Uprising shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform Syrian television drama with various forms of cultural and political critique. The emergence of these suppressed narratives attests to the survival of the genre despite instability, war, and bloodshed.
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