Politics of International Marriage in Japan

This book provides an in-depth exploration and analysis of marriages between Japanese nationals and migrants from three broad ethnic/cultural groups - spouses from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries. It reveals how the marriage migrants navigate the intricacies and trajectories of their marriages with Japanese people while living in Japan. Seen from the lens of 'gendered geographies of power', the book explores how state-level politics and policies towards marriage, migration, and gender affect the personal power politics in operation within the relationships of these international couples. Overall, the book discusses how ethnic identity intersects with gender in the negotiation of spaces and power relations between and amongst couples; and the role states and structural inequalities play in these processes, resulting in a reconfiguration of our notions of what international marriages are and how powerful gender and the state are in understanding the power relations in these unions.
 

About the author

VIKTORIYA KIM is an associate professor in the Human Sciences International Undergraduate Degree Program, Osaka University, Japan.
NELIA G. BALGOA is a professor in the Department of English and Culture and Arts Studies Center of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Mindanao, Philippines.
BEVERLEY YAMAMOTO is a professor of Transformative Education, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan.
 

Product details

• Authors: Viktoriya Balgoa Kim, Nelia G. Balgoa, Nelia G Balgoa, KIM BALGOA YAMAMO, Viktoriya Kim, Nelia Balgoa, Beverley Anne Yamamoto
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.2021
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9781978809024
• ISBN: 978-1-978809-02-4
• Pages: 194
• Series: Politics of Marriage and Gende; Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Subjects: Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies