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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.
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Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Introduction. The Politics of International Marriage in Japan
1 Cross-Border Marriage Studies Through the 'Lens'
2 Historical Roots and Contemporary Changes in International Marriages
3 Who Marries Whom?
4 The Politics of Love: Migration Regimes, Individuals and Images
5 Spaces for Negotiation
6 Choices and Constraints
7 Parents' Strategies to Raise Bilingual/Bicultural Children
8 International Divorce Politics and Transnational Strategies of Spouses
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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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.
