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While marriage has lost its popularity in many developed countries
and is no longer an obligatory path to family formation, it has
gained momentum among binational couples as states reinforce their
control over human migration. Focusing on the case of Southeast
Asian women who have been epitomized on the global marriage market
as 'ideal' brides and wives, this volume examines these women's
experiences of international marriage, migration, and states'
governmentality. Drawing from ethnographic research and policy
analyses, this book sheds light on the way many countries in
Southeast Asia and beyond have redefined marriage and national
belonging through their regime of 'marital citizenship' (that is, a
legal status granted by a state to a migrant by virtue of his/her
marriage to one of its citizens). These regimes influence the
familial and social incorporation of Southeast Asian migrant women,
notably their access to socio-political and civic rights in their
receiving countries. The case studies analysed in this volume
highlight these women's subjectivity and agency as they embrace,
resist, and navigate the intricate legal and socio-cultural
frameworks of citizenship. As such, it will appeal to sociologists,
geographers, socio-legal scholars, and anthropologists with
interests in migration, family formation, intimate relations, and
gender.
While marriage has lost its popularity in many developed countries
and is no longer an obligatory path to family formation, it has
gained momentum among binational couples as states reinforce their
control over human migration. Focusing on the case of Southeast
Asian women who have been epitomized on the global marriage market
as 'ideal' brides and wives, this volume examines these women's
experiences of international marriage, migration, and states'
governmentality. Drawing from ethnographic research and policy
analyses, this book sheds light on the way many countries in
Southeast Asia and beyond have redefined marriage and national
belonging through their regime of 'marital citizenship' (that is, a
legal status granted by a state to a migrant by virtue of his/her
marriage to one of its citizens). These regimes influence the
familial and social incorporation of Southeast Asian migrant women,
notably their access to socio-political and civic rights in their
receiving countries. The case studies analysed in this volume
highlight these women's subjectivity and agency as they embrace,
resist, and navigate the intricate legal and socio-cultural
frameworks of citizenship. As such, it will appeal to sociologists,
geographers, socio-legal scholars, and anthropologists with
interests in migration, family formation, intimate relations, and
gender.
How does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do
prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the
law to achieve women's liberation? The mainstream feminist movement
has proposed "locking up the bad men," and called on prisons, the
legal system, and the state to protect women from misogynist
violence. This carceral approach to feminism, activist and scholar
Gwenola Ricordeau argues, does not make women safer: it harms
women, including victims of violence, and in particular people of
color, poor people, and LGBTQ people. In this scintillating,
comprehensive study, Ricordeau draws from two decades as an
abolitionist activist and scholar of the penal justice system to
describe how the criminal justice system hurts women. Considering
the position of survivors of violence, criminalized women, and
women with criminalized relatives, Ricordeau charts a new path to
emancipation without incarceration. With a new foreword by Silvia
Federici.
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