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Marriage has long been central to the study of kinship and family and to imaginings of culture, identity and citizenship. If the deeply gendered nature of marriage has been critiqued by feminist researchers, the conjugal contract has been the subject of debate in the legal domain and the economics of marriage and of the wedding ceremony figure in the discourse on development.
Engaging with these and other strands is Marrying in South Asia, a volume which looks ...
Marriage, Migration and Gender brings a gender-sensitive and comparative perspective to bear on Asian peoples' migration experiences, both within and across national borders. It seeks to examine how the institution of marriage may affect or enable women's and men's migration, as well as the impact of migration, state laws and immigration procedures on the marriage, family and kinship networks of Asian migrants. Migration and marriage strategies are discussed ...