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Arranged Marriage shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation; how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, consent, and choice work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage; and how this type of marriage can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic and other desires, needs, and constraints.
List of contents
Series Foreword
PÉTER BERTA
Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage–
From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency
PÉTER BERTA
PART ONE
Regulating Arranged Marriage
1 Nothing “Celestial” about It: Trafficking Underage
Brides between Canada and the United States for the Purposes of Arranged Marriage
SERENA PETRELLA
2 From FamilySafety Net to the WorldWide Web of Immigration Fraudsters:
The Evolution of Arranged Marriages among South Asian Canadians
NOORFARAH MERALI
PART TWO
(Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage
3 Arranged Marriage as a Process:
From Premarital Normalization of Arranged Marriage to Arranged
Divorce and Arranged Remarriage
PÉTER BERTA
4 Configuring Arranged Marriage as a Foil to Forced Marriage in Multicultural Australia
HELENA ZEWERI
5 Forced Marriage and “Honor”-Based
Violence in Britain: Issues, Debates, and the Question of Consent
CHRISTINA JULIOS
PART THREE
Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage
6 Revisiting Transnational Arranged Marriages among
Syrian Refugees in Germany: A Relational Approach
YAFA SHANNEIK AND SCHIRIN VAHLE
7 From Patriarchal Call to Digital Hunt:
Transforming “Arranged Marriages” in China
PAN WANG
PART FOUR
Modernizing Arranged Marriage
8 Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India:
Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity, and Emotional Compatibility
SHALINI GROVER
9 Progressive Traditions, Repressive Victorians, and
the Modern Present: Arranged Marriage and Gender in Sri Lanka
ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA
10 “I Wanted to Choose for Myself”: Changing Marriage
Patterns in the Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel
SIMA ZALCBERG BLOCK
PART FIVE
Diasporizing Arranged Marriage
11 Wedded to Tradition? Continuity and Change in
Arranged Marriage Practices among British Indians
RAKSHA PANDE
12 The Changing Face of Arranged Marriage in the
South Asian Diaspora in Chicago
FARHA TERNIKAR
Afterword
MARIAN AGUIAR
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
PÉTER BERTA is an honorary research associate at University College London SSEES and a senior research fellow at Budapest Business School. He is the author of the award-winning monograph Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, and the founding editor of The Politics of Marriage and Gender book series at Rutgers University Press.
