By Hung Cam Thai
Marriage is at the moment the number-one cause humans migrate to the us, and ladies represent the vast majority of beginners becoming a member of husbands who already dwell right here. yet little is understood approximately those marriage and migration streams past the hugely publicized and sometimes sensationalized phenomena of mail-order and armed forces brides. much less in general recognized is that almost all overseas are immigrants of an analogous ethnicity.
In For higher or For Worse, Hung Cam Thai takes a better examine marriage and migration, with a selected specialise in the unions among Vietnamese males residing within the usa and the ladies who marry them. Weaving jointly a chain of non-public tales, he underscores the ironies and demanding situations that those unions face. He comprises the voices of working-class immigrant males facing marginalization of their followed kingdom. those males talk about short of "traditional" other halves who they wish will realize their gendered authority. in the meantime, younger Vietnamese college-educated ladies, bad to bachelors of their personal nation who're looking subservient better halves, convey a choice for males of a similar ethnicity yet with a extra liberal outlook on gender-men they think they are going to locate within the usa.
A feel of foreboding pervades the booklet as Thai captures the incompatible viewpoints of the who seem to be separated not just geographically yet ideologically.
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Qxd 10/30/07 32 9:19 AM Page 32 F o r B e t t e r o r F o r Wo r s e see the latter group as men who took up valuable migration “spots” that others could have filled. Many men in Vietnam told me different fantasies with the same plot. ” Mr. Le, Trang’s father, felt proud that his brother had risked migration and achieved this upper tier; this meant that Mr. Le did not face postmigration difficulties that pervade the experiences of contemporary migrants to the United States, especially those from Southeast Asia.
Qxd 10/30/07 10 9:29 AM Page 10 F o r B e t t e r o r F o r Wo r s e I take up the question of convertibility of social worth and respect evinced by a specific diasporic group as they produce and interpret symbolic, affective, and psychosocial dynamics in processes of international marriage migration. What is primarily at issue here is the nature of how and why individuals are able to convert certain forms of capital across transnational space in order to achieve social worth and respect as they make decisions about international marriage and international migration.
By raising the issue of masculinity as it relates to gender dynamics in the discussions on globalization and transnationalism, I join the dialogue raised by feminist theorists who have engaged in demonstrating that gender plays a key role in the constitution and formation of national subjectivities and collectivities (Abu-Lughod 1998; Alonso 1994; Chatterjee 1993; Espiritu 1997; Lowe 1996). I see many processes occurring in what Sarah Mahler and Patricia Pessar call “gendered geographies of power,” a framework that helps us understand “people’s social agency—corporal and cognitive— given their own initiative as well as their positioning within multiple hierarchies of power operative within and across many terrains” (2001, 447).