Transnational marriage migration and the negotiation of precarious pathways beyond partial citizenship in Singapore

Yeoh, Brenda S. A.; Chee, Heng Leng; Anant, Rohini; Lam, Theodora

doi:10.1080/13621025.2021.1968681

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“…So, even if some previous studies explain individuals' dual citizenship practice mainly through the instrumental and identity dimensions, some researchers mentioned connecting the normative ideals of citizenship with individual migrants' agency and positionality (Kim, 2021). Yeoh et al (2021) states that the ways to citizenship involve a very comprehensive negotiation, and what makes it a negotiation is that the migrants find ways to negotiate with the state at some level. In this context, the family sphere lies between the migrant and the state, and features as a strategic site where citizenship categories take effect on migrant lives on the one hand, and where citizenship claims are mediated, negotiated, and contested on the other (Yeoh et al, 2021).…”

Section: Transnational Mixed Marriage Compositions and Socio-spatial ...mentioning

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From the “Republic of Cousins” to foreign spouses: Transnational marriages in Türkiye

Deniz

2023

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Marriage in Türkiye, as in many societies, is of great importance in the reproduction of life, and the choice of a spouse often involves the intervention of families and society. Within this structure, it is seen that marriages usually occur between extended family members or the same ethnic/sectarian groups. Nevertheless, mixed marriages between migrants with different ethnic, racial, religious, and cultural identities and settled people have increased in the last 30 years. The fluidity of the transnational social space created by marriages is effective in this increase. This paper reviews the current studies on mixed marriages in Türkiye from the perspective of transnational social spaces, which express a way of life somewhere between two communities and provides a link between them. It reflects the ways in which this fluidity affects the political and social positioning of mixed marriages and the agency of marriage migrants.

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Section: Transnational Mixed Marriage Compositions and Socio-spatial ...mentioning

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From the “Republic of Cousins” to foreign spouses: Transnational marriages in Türkiye

Deniz

2023

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“…The close geographical proximity between Singapore and Malaysia enables the couples to see each other regularly without giving up the economic opportunities presented by living in the original place of residence. In a recent study on marriage migration in Singapore, Yeoh et al (2021) discuss the ways the legal status and social practice of citizenship are mutually constituted. Moret et al (2021) study how European states classify acceptable and nonacceptable cross‐border marriages and differentiate them into ‘sham’, ‘forced’ and ‘mixed’ marriages.…”

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Cross‐border marriages in pre‐ and post‐handover Hong Kong

Lui¹

2022

Population Space and Place

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Given the ever‐increasing economic and social ties with the Mainland, Hong Kong‐Mainland cross‐border marriage patterns experienced significant changes after the handover. The proportion of cross‐border marriages only accounted for 2% of marriages registered in Hong Kong in the pre‐handover period but jumped to 34.7% after the handover. This study examines the impact of stronger economic ties and weakened social and cultural boundaries on the patterns of assortative mating in cross‐border marriages. As most of the cross‐border workers from Hong Kong are males, they have increasing opportunities for social interaction with Mainland women in communities and social circles in the Mainland. After the handover, the language skills of residents on both sides showed significant improvement and this can enhance the possibility of finding a marriage partner across the border. Empirical results suggest a weaker positive assortative mating in respect of age and educational attainment among Hong Kong husband‐Mainland wife couples after the handover. Previous studies suggest that marital partner selection reflects the strength of social boundaries and the strength of these boundaries should be stronger for cross‐border marriages. The results of this paper support the view that stronger economic ties and weakened social and cultural boundaries do promote cross‐border marriages and negative assortative mating in these marriages.

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“…This gendered mode of familial citizenship not only restricts their autonomy within the intimate sphere of the family but also renders them partial citizens in wider society as subjects who are not entitled to residency and citizenship rights on their own terms (Chiu & Yeoh, 2021). The family domain functions as a two‐edged sword, as it serves to restrict female marriage migrants’ roles to the domestic sphere while also mediating women's vulnerability and access to social mobility as newcomers and social outsiders in the host nation state (Yeoh et al, 2021). As Chiu and Yeoh (2021) conclude in a recent special issue on “Marriage Migration, Family and Citizenship in Asia,” the burgeoning research on marriage migration in Asia has opened up new ways of understanding “how nation states mobilise notions of the family for its citizenship project; how citizenship structures the trajectory and circumstances of different types of families formed out of cross‐border marriages.”…”

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Conceptual contours of migration studies in and from Asia

Yeoh

2021

International Migration

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Over the last six decades, Asia's participation in population mobility on the global stage has advanced in unprecedented ways. Today, Asia sustains two-thirds of the world's population and is the origin of 40 per cent of the world's international migrants (IOM, 2019). Intraregional migration has grown rapidly and accounts for more than half of Asian migrants on the move (66 million), while extra-regional migrants number around 44.6 million (IOM, 2019: 68). A vast region of great complexity and enormous diversity, Asia's massive social transformation, economic development and demographic change are inextricably linked to new understandings and practices centring migration as a social force for change. Accompanying the rise of migration in Asia as a vital transformative force, migration research in the Asian context has not only grown in volume and substance, but also carved out its own distinctive contours in response to the lived reality of a dynamic region. This is a shifting kaleidoscopic region grappling with a shared history of colonialism and postcolonial nation-building, and at the same time riven by the incommensurability of immense socio-economic inequality, deep-seated cultural difference and wide divergence in political regimes.Against such variance and variegations in the region, summarising even the key developments in migration research in Asia would take much more than a short commentary. Instead, my task is much more focused on spotlighting distinctive contributions illustrating how an empirical concentration on Asia has organically advanced conceptual understandings in the field of international migration. This task is not inspired by strains of Asian exceptionalism but more akin to Chen's (2010: 212) "Asia as method," where anchoring research in Asia practically and imaginatively creates "each other's points of reference, so that … the diverse historical experiences and rich social practices of Asia may be mobilised to provide alternative horizons and perspectives." As a small and tentative step towards materialising the postcolonial desire to "theorise from the South, rather than just use the SouthThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Transnational marriage migration and the negotiation of precarious pathways beyond partial citizenship in Singapore

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

From the “Republic of Cousins” to foreign spouses: Transnational marriages in Türkiye

From the “Republic of Cousins” to foreign spouses: Transnational marriages in Türkiye

Cross‐border marriages in pre‐ and post‐handover Hong Kong

Conceptual contours of migration studies in and from Asia

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