Papers by Melody Chia-Wen Lu
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Nicola Ansell, Brunel University, UK; Caitlin Cahill, University of Utah, USA; ... more ASSOCIATE EDITORS Nicola Ansell, Brunel University, UK; Caitlin Cahill, University of Utah, USA; Elizabeth Gagen, University of Hull, UK; Sarah Holloway, Loughborough University, UK; Louise Holt, University of Reading, UK; Peter Hopkins, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; John Horton, University of Northampton, UK; Owain Jones, University of Exeter, UK; Peter Kraftl, University of Leicester, UK; Karen Nairn, University of Otago, New Zealand; Rachel Pain, University of Durham, UK; Chris Philo, University of Glasgow, UK; Samantha Punch, University of Stirling, UK; Elsbeth Robson, Durham University, UK and University of Malawi, Malawi; Linda Richter, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa; Lorraine van Blerk, University of Dundee, UK; Gill Valentine, University of Leeds, UK; Robert Vanderbeck, University of Leeds, UK; Johanna Wyn, University of Melbourne, Australia
Current Sociology, 2015
This research focuses on the migration trajectories of mainland Chinese women marriage migrants i... more This research focuses on the migration trajectories of mainland Chinese women marriage migrants in Malaysia. It finds that their migratory motivations and pathways reveal formerly overlooked mobility patterns that depart from the institutionally organized, commercially arranged, or kinship and social network-mediated migration patterns. The authors argue that the state’s attempts to grow its regulatory capacity, the increasing ‘cost’ of legality and the multiplying of illegal-but-licit spaces through which migrants can navigate produce particular forms of mobile subjectivities which the authors broadly term ‘entrepreneurial’. The aim in this article is to begin to fill this gap in scholarship on entrepreneurialism and feminized migration with an ethnographic study of these gendered entrepreneurial strategies. The authors propose two interlinked concepts in vernacular Chinese – ‘out’ ( chu出) and ‘through’ ( zuan钻) – as a set of lenses to examine the marriage migrants’ variable motiva...
Transnational marriage in Asia / Melody Lu 5 Muslim transnational families: Pakistani husbands an... more Transnational marriage in Asia / Melody Lu 5 Muslim transnational families: Pakistani husbands and Japanese wives / Shuko Takeshita 6 Remittances and 'social remittances': Their impact on cross-cultural marriage and social transformation / Panitee Suksomboon 7 'Daughter-in-law for the second time': Taiwanese mothers-in-law in the family of cross-border marriage / Hsing-Miao Chi 9 'Arranged love': marriage in a transnational work envirnoment / Michiel Baas IIAS also administers the secretariat of the European Alliance for Asian Studies (Asia Alliance: www. asia-alliance.org) and the Secretariat General of the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS: www.icassecretariat.org). Updates on the activities of the Asia Alliance and ICAS are published in this newsletter. < The International Institute for Asian Studies is a postdoctoral research centre based in Leiden and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our main objective is to encourage the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Asia and to promote national and international cooperation in the field. The institute focuses on the humanities and social sciences and their interaction with other sciences. www.iias.nl Further reading Constable, Nicole ed. 2005 Cross-border marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia. Lu, Schoonheim and Yang eds. (forthcoming) Cross-border marriage migration in East and Southeast Asia: socio-demographic patterns and issues. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam. Palriwala, Rajni and Uberoi, Patricia eds. (forthcoming) Marriage, Migration and Gender. Series of Women and Migration in Asia, no. 5. Sage: New Delhi. Piper, Nicola and Roces, Mina eds. 2003 Wife or workers? Asian women and migration. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Willis, Yeoh and Fakhri 2004 Introduction: transnaitonalism as a challenge to the nation, in Brenda, S.A. Yeoh and Katie Willis (eds.) State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific. Routledge: London and New York.
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... facilitated my research by providing valuable documentations and allowing me to participate i... more ... facilitated my research by providing valuable documentations and allowing me to participate in their activities; Mr. Chang Fu-pu, Secretary-General of Hukou township and head of a Hakka clan, for his knowledge and ... Lee Hye-Kyung (Paichai University, South Korea), Prof. ...
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Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 2010
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Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2015
This paper examines how discrepant governmental rationalities and processes produce friction and ... more This paper examines how discrepant governmental rationalities and processes produce friction and shifting experiences of subjectification as transmigrants cross borders. Using the experiences of mainland Chinese marriage migrants in Singapore as an example, the paper explores the notion of ‘transgovernmental friction’ and how it reinforces state boundaries, reshapes body politics, and animates waiting as an active practice that transforms migrant subjectivities. Locating the workings of governmentality, mobility, and space in the domain of transnational marriage and family, the paper brings to light the friction and crevices of governmental processes across borders and the embodied politics of im/mobility.
Citizenship Studies, 2014
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the experience of one specific group of Taiwanese women married to... more ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the experience of one specific group of Taiwanese women married to Chinese Malaysian men to examine the contestational process of bidding for citizenship status in an ethnicized polity. Positioned within a trajectory of transnational linkages between origin and host countries, they achieve success through making use of networking links with co-ethnic Chinese Malaysian women who are well-positioned within government bureaucracy, while forwarding an argument based on familial ideology and the (reproductive) citizenship rights of their Malaysian husbands. As noncitizens, they nevertheless engage in socially contributive ‘acts of citizenship’ that signify their suitability as citizens, nonthreatening to social cohesion. Furthermore, they enhance their strategy by ethnic boundary-making efforts aimed at distancing themselves from People&#39;s Republic of China wives who constitute a stereotyped and stigmatized ‘other.’ The discussion makes a contribution to the literature on ethnicity, citizenship, and gender.
Children's Geographies, 2012
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The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, 2013
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2005
This article problematises the discourses on commercially arranged marriages, commonly seen as a ... more This article problematises the discourses on commercially arranged marriages, commonly seen as a form of trafficking in women or mail-order brides (MOB), by focusing on a less discussed aspect of commercial marriage migrationnamely, the matchmaking and/or marriage brokerage operation. Drawing upon empirical studies of marriages between Taiwanese men and women from South-East Asia and the Peoples Republic of China, I look at the changing operations of the marriage brokerage industry, the relations between the actors involved prior to, during and after matchmaking and marriage, and the actors own perceptions of these operations. The main arguments are that: (a) the marriage brokers play a key role in motivating potential brides/ grooms to enter into international marriages and give shape to their preferences in mate choice; and (b) cross-border marriage migration has taken on a very traditional form, involving complex, localised social networks in which women play an active role. As a result, the brokering industry goes beyond mere commercial activities to involve the other types of social relations that are sustained throughout the marriage. Finally, I argue that (c) money transactions at the time of a wedding do not necessarily make women a traded commodity.
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Papers by Melody Chia-Wen Lu
This book provides an overview of the demographic patterns of, and social issues related to cross-border marriages in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan Hong Kong, Thailand and Vietnam in the past two decades with contributions from scholars in the fields of demography, sociology, anthropology and social work. With its diversified methodologies and approaches, this volume will interest scholars and students of migration and gender studies. It also informs policy-makers and concerned civil society groups and practitioners.