Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States (Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies)

Migration in Asia is leading to more marriages across nationalities. New patterns of migration are complicating the picture of women from poorer Asian countries migrating to marry men in more wealthy ones. The contributors to this volume explore the agency of marriage migrants, showing how migration is often more than a simple movement from home to destination but can involve return, repeated, or extended migrations, and that these transitions that can alter geographies of power in economics, nationality, or ethnicity. Together, the contributors identify this emerging diaspora and its long-term consequences for families.

Sari K. Ishii is associate professor of sociology in the Department of Social Science, Toyo Eiwa University, Yokohama.