This paper discusses how Philippine transnational marriage migration is intertwined in complex and paradoxical ways with global, local and personal matters. My argument will blur the artificial and still dominant analytical division between marriage migrants (wives or ''mail order'' brides) and labour migrants (workersmainly domestic workers). Focusing on the life histories of different Filipina women, the paper illustrates the intersections and multiplicity of their roles as wives, mistresses, workers, mothers, daughters and citizens in a transnational migratory space.Furthermore, I go along with those scholars who argue that women do not only marry in order to migrate, but that they also migrate in order to marry, as marriage is seen as an important aspect of social fulfilment. By carefully investigating these emerging transnational or even global marriage-scapes, I analyze the different motives, logics and desires that come into play. While women from the Philippines may look for ''modern husbands'' and ''modern marriages'' because of local constraints on their marriage opportunities, many western men turn to Asia and the Philippines for ''traditional'' wives whom they imagine to be more ''conservative'' and ''less demanding.'' Both often discover that their gender stereotypes are more imagined than real.The stories illustrate how Filipina migrants use different socio-cultural and socio-economic situations across transnational space -and at times against local gender constructions -in order to renegotiate and reclaim a respectable and desired marital status. On the one hand, these women are subject to manifold localised, legal and religious-moral definitions as women and wives. On the other hand, they creatively and actively utilise structural differences and new opportunities across transnational space to redefine themselves. The stories thus show both the women's agency and the importance of structural factors.
Das Phänomen der internationalen interkulturellen Heiratsmigration gewinnt seit Jahren zunehmend an Bedeutung. In ihm verweben und verdichten sich vielfältige Dynamiken zwischen Globalem und Lokalem, zwischen Ökonomie, Kultur und Geschlecht, zwischen Heirat und Ehe sowie zwischen Familie und Arbeit auf komplexe Weise. In dieser ethnographischen Migrationsstudie wird anhand dichter Fallbeschreibungen die Vernetzung zwischen Herkunfts- und Zielland philippinischer Heiratsmigrantinnen nachgezeichnet. Auf der Spurensuche nach kulturellen Bedeutungszusammenhängen ebenso wie nach alltäglichen Lebensstrategien wird eine kreative Verschränkung von kleinen und großen Erzählungen und ethnologischen Interpretationen und Analysen hergestellt. Im Ergebnis wird mit zahlreichen Klischees über Heiratsmigrantinnen aufgeräumt.
Material Culture and (Forced) Migration argues that materiality is a fundamental dimension of migration. During journeys of migration, people take things with them, or they lose, find and engage things along the way. Movements themselves are framed by objects such as borders, passports, tents, camp infrastructures, boats and mobile phones. This volume brings together chapters that are based on research into a broad range of movements – from the study of forced migration and displacement to the analysis of retirement migration. What ties the chapters together is the perspective of material culture and an understanding of materiality that does not reduce objects to mere symbols. Centring on four interconnected themes – temporality and materiality, methods of object-based migration research, the affective capacities of objects, and the engagement of things in place-making practices – the volume provides a material culture perspective for migration scholars around the globe, representing disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, contemporary archaeology, curatorial studies, history and human geography. The ethnographic nature of the chapters and the focus on everyday objects and practices will appeal to all those interested in the broader conditions and tangible experiences of migration.
Using the potential of place as an approach and of places as ethnographic contexts, the authors in this volume investigate the multiple entanglements of 'religion' and 'modernity' in contemporary settings. The guiding questions of such an approach are: How are modernity and religion spatially articulated in and through places? How do these articulations help us to understand the ways in which religion becomes socially and culturally signi cant in modern contexts? And how do they reveal the ways in which modernity unfolds within religion? Thus, places are not only understood as neutral locations or extensions, but as spatial modes to mediate properties, contents and processes of religion and modernity. Based on ethnographic and historical research in Southeast and East Asia and featuring re ections on the concepts of religion and modernity respectively, the authors o fer a deeper understanding of the articulation of a religious modernity in these regions and beyond. Contributors are:
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