Migration and marriage. Heterogamy and homogamy in a changing world.

Sonst. Personen	Waldis, Barbara (Hrsg.); Byron, Reginald (Hrsg.)
Titel	Migration and marriage. Heterogamy and homogamy in a changing world. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Migration und Eheschließung. Heterogamie und Homogamie in einer Welt im Wandel.
Quelle	Münster: Lit Verl. (2006), X, 212 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Freiburger Sozialanthropologische Studien. 14
Beigaben	Tabellen
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	3-8258-9873-3
Schlagwörter	Identität; Ehe; Ehescheidung; Familie; Heirat; Recht; Eltern; Kind; Ethnische Beziehungen; Interkultureller Faktor; Migration; Migrationshintergrund; Mischehe; Globalisierung; Geschlechtsspezifik
Abstract	"In a world in which the migration, movement, and mixing of peoples seem to be increasing dramatically - thus increasing the opportunities for people to interact with others of different cultural backgrounds - while at the same time the ideology of multiculturalism has given rise to the reassertion of putative primordial differences between peoples, interesting questions are raised about the relationships between political rhetoric and social action, groupness and individuality, and the public and the private. The rate of intermarriage is considered by sociologists to be the single most important statistical test of the strength or weakness of structural divisions within societies. What do we as social anthropologists and ethnologists have to say about heterogamy and homogamy in situations of movement and flux in the contemporary world, and what does this tell us about the ways that we conceptualise the processes of boundary-definition? These questions and ideas were the basis of a workshop called "Marriage and Migration: Heterogamy and Homogamy in a Changing World" held in Vienna at the Eighth Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in September 2004. The organisers of the workshop were Reginald Byron (Swansea) and Lena Gerholm (Stockholm), and the discussant was Barbara Waldis (Neuchâtel). This book brings together chapters by eight of the Vienna participants, and includes an additional chapter by Betty de Hart on the international legal framework of intermarriage." (abstract). Index: Barbara Waldis: Introduction: Marriage in an era of globalisation (1-19); Bettina Beer: Interethnic marriages: changing rules and shifting boundaries among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea (20-39); Gabriele Marranci: Muslim marriages in Northern Ireland (40-60); Ewa Nowicka: Identity dilemmas and identity strategies: children of transnational marriages in Poland (61-84); Birgit Allenbach: Parenthood and migration: Kosova-Albanian mothers in a Swiss town (85-113); Jenny Ask: Challenges and choices: an analysis of gender strategies among women in cross-cultural marriages (114-134); Yolanda van Ede: Longing for belonging: the dynamics of post-divorce kinship and community in contemporary dutch society (135-160); Reginald Byron: The case of the mail-order brides: marriage strategies among Irish migrants in nineteenth-century America (161-178); Betty de Hart: The unity of the family? Legal perspectives an nationally mixed marriages in postwar Europe (179-199).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2007/4