Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chapter 1. Introduction: Cross-Border Marriages, Gendered Mobility, and Global Hyperqamy 1
4. Chapter 2. Cross-Border Hypergamy? Marriage Exchanges in a Transnational Hakka Community 17
5. Chapter 3. Cautionary Tales: Marriage Strategies, State Discourse, and Women's Agency in a Naxi Village in Southwestern China 34
6. Chapter 4. Marrying out of Place: Hmong/Miao Women Across and Beyond China 53
7. Chapter 5. Marrying Up and Marrying Down: The Paradoxes of Marital Mobility for Chosonjok Brides in South Korea 80
8. Chapter 6. A Failed Attempt at Transnational Marriage: Maternal Citizenship in a Globalizing South Korea 101
9. Chapter 7. Tripartite Desires: Filipina-Japanese Marriages and Fantasies of Transnational Traversal 124
10. Chapter 8. Clashing Dreams in the Vietnamese Diaspora: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage U.S. Husbands 145
11. Chapter 9. A Tale of Two Marriages: International Matchmaking and Gendered Mobility 166
12. Notes 187
13. Works Cited 199
14. Contributors 211
15. Index 213