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2. Resisting the White Pole - A Feminist Ethnographic Study: Second-Generation South Asian-American Women, U.S. Racialization Projects, and the Arranged Marriage.
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Badruddoja, Roksana
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ARRANGED marriage ,MARRIAGE brokerage ,WOMEN & religion ,MARRIAGE customs & rites ,NATIONALISM - Abstract
This paper focuses on the history of the transatlantic movements of South Asians to the U.S. to propose that the social production of space is characterized by disciplinary category work, limiting people's movements. Through various spaces of cathexis like language, religion, clothing, and marriage second-generation South Asian-American women validate the categories that define human invisibility in public spaces. I focus only on marriage practices in this article to showcase women's active efforts towards invisibility to avoid the white gaze. One of the ways they protect themselves is by adopting banal, Hollywood romance stories to describe how they met their partners. In contrast, the U.S.-South Asian migration is additionally a project which involves contradictory and ambivalent historical and nationalist narratives. Therefore, not surprisingly, marriage is also a space of cathexis for visibility to challenge the white voyeur; several oppositional identifications are produced simultaneously by South Asian-American women as they recount stories about their involvement in the South Asian "arranged marriage" system to meet their significant others. This article addresses the acceptance of, manipulation of, and resistance to white hegemonic power by an often invisible and marginalized group of people, second-generation South Asian-American women. I do this by presenting partial data from a six-month-long ethnographic study with a cross-national sample of twenty-five second-generation South Asian-American women, exploring the perceptions of women about daily social practices in the U.S. and how they view themselves in comparison to broader American society. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
3. Changing Marriage Trends in the South Asian American Community.
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Farha, Ternikar
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ARRANGED marriage ,MARRIAGE ,MASS media ,RELIGIONS ,IMMIGRANTS ,MARRIAGE customs & rites - Abstract
The concept of the ?arranged marriage? has always seemed foreign yet fascinated the American public. Recent media coverage of arranged marriages is evident in popular periodicals such as the New York Times Online (August 17, 2000) and Newsweek (March 15, 1999). The choice in the South Asian American community which at one point was between the arranged or ?love marriage? now includes several options as new immigrants negotiate new ways of finding marriage partners. These methods vary depending on religious tradition, family influence and ethnic community ties. My research confirms that gender norms in the South Asian immigrant community are often reinforced by traditional religious ideology. For example, a conservative Hindu temple may arrange marriages through family networks to ensure religious and racial endogamy. However, a liberal Indian Catholic church may allow dating in its community as an appropriate method of meeting potential marriage partners. Yet, a conservative mosque may advocate arranged or semi-arranged marriages in hopes of maintaining modesty and chastity norms. This paper explores the importance of traditional gender roles and marriage in the South Asian immigrant community, lays out the methods that South Asian immigrants use in finding marriage partners, and explains how some of these options are changing. I use a comparative framework across religious traditions: Islam, Christianity and Hinduism. Religion, ethnicity, and community all play significant roles in the negotiation of marriage options for new immigrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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4. 'Education makes you have more say in the way your life goes': Indian women and arranged marriages in the United Kingdom.
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Bhopal, Kalwant
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ARRANGED marriage ,INDIAN women (Asians) ,BRITISH education system ,SOCIAL capital ,GROUP identity ,HIGHER education ,HISTORY - Abstract
This paper explores Indian women's views on arranged marriages in the United Kingdom. It is based on research carried out with 32 Indian women studying at a university in the South East of England, UK. The article draws on Wenger's social theory of learning to explore how Indian women's participation in communities of practice in higher education contributes to their participation in arranged marriages. The concept of 'social capital' is used to discuss how women are able to negotiate their participation in arranged marriages, It is used to examine the knowledge and identity resources that women develop through their participation in higher education, which provides them with the means from which to develop the necessary 'bridging ties' leading to their active participation in the wider South Asian community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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5. Making a Covenant Marriage in a Standard World: Religion and Commitment in Modern America.
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Deines, Jill A., Sanchez, Laura A., Nock, Steven L., and Wright, James D.
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ARRANGED marriage ,MARRIAGE ,MARRIAGE law ,MARRIED people - Abstract
The Bush administration?s current emphasis on promoting marriage in hopes of decreasing poverty and increasing the well-being of children, as well as introduced covenant marriage legislation in at least twenty-three states, make covenant marriage an important and timely topic. While the arguments for and against covenant marriage abound, a dearth of data has prevented explorations of how covenant and standard marriages actually compare. In addition, because the enactment of covenant marriage laws is so recent and such laws have been passed in only three states, existing work on covenant marriage is largely speculative. We are uniquely equipped to address these issues, as we are currently wrapping up a five-year, three wave quantitative and qualitative study of both types of marriage in Louisiana, the first state to pass covenant marriage legislation. Our data comprise the only longitudinal panel study of newlywed covenant and standard married couples and include multiple dimensions of religiosity, spirituality, and marital functioning. Our analyses will provide the only empirical information exploring whether (and if so, how) covenant marriage is associated with stronger, more stable unions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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6. Arranged Marriage: Change or Persistence? Illustrative Cases of Nigerians in the USA.
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Sam, Monibo A.
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ARRANGED marriage , *MARRIAGE , *NIGERIANS , *OKRIKA (African people) , *SOCIAL change - Abstract
It is common for parents/families in traditional settings, whether in Africa or China, to pair their children/members in marriage often without their consent. This specific mate selection practice, arrangement, is used to designate marriages in these settings: the so-called arranged marriages. Observations about this mate selection practice are then posited as conclusive evidence of change in these marriages. This paper attempts an exploratory clarification of marriages in traditional Africa in two ways. First, it uses the marriage system of the Okrikans to reveal that arranged and non-arranged marriages coexist, each administered by and organized around distinct institutions, with differing consequences for family membership, inheritance and other important issues. Second, it breaks down traditional marriage into it components, and using cases to illustrate each, shows that the purported change coexists with persistence. The resistance observed with our case also seems to point to a dynamic in the immigrant/homeland interchange that has not been adequately explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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7. Off-White Romantics: Cross-cultural Histories of Immigrant Picture Brides and the Process of US Race Making.
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VAGGALIS, KATHRYN
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MAIL order brides ,ARRANGED marriage ,WOMEN immigrants ,IMMIGRANTS ,ETHNIC groups - Abstract
The stories of early twentieth-century Japanese picture brides--women in arranged marriages coming to the United States to meet the immigrant men to whom they were married by "proxy" according to the popular press--are widely known in memory, scholarship, and popular culture. Less is known about their Southern European counterparts--primarily women from Greece, but also Italy and Armenia--coming to the country at the same time, and to much less public outcry and legislative restrictions. Yet as this article demonstrates, the title of "picture bride" was prominently and popularly applied to Southern European and Japanese women alike as a politically charged racial signifier that provides nuance to the complex yet fluid racial hierarchies of the early twentieth century. This article closely examines popular media depictions of "off-white" picture brides using Greek immigrants as a case study--the predominant European group practicing picture marriage from 1907 to 1924--to demonstrate the quotidian ways that audiences learned the politics of race and immigration through seemingly apolitical messages about family, marriage, and romantic love. This work argues that far from being a mere footnote in Greek American history, picture brides and their popular depictions in national newspapers were critical symbols of Greeks' transition from "in-between" white others to ethnic white Americans. By contextualizing picture marriage as occurring across a diverse racial hierarchy, this work illumines the ways that white supremacy acts in contradictory, often hypocritical ways, excluding some groups while excusing and including others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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8. Pedagogical Strategies in Discussing Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage.
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Rastogi, Pallavi
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ARRANGED marriage ,SOCIAL conditions of women - Abstract
The article focuses on the literary works of Indian writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The author explores Divakaruni's fictional book "Arranged Marriage" particularly the political, social and literary issues within his work. The author adds that the book deals with the role of women in the American culture.
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- 2010
9. Muslim Marriages in America: Reflecting New Identities.
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Al-Johar, Denise
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ISLAMIC marriage customs & rites ,RELIGION & marriage ,MUSLIM Americans ,ARRANGED marriage - Abstract
This article addresses some aspects of Muslim marriages in the U.S. in 2005. Marriage among Muslims in the country reflects varying degrees of movement beyond ethnic or national origin traditions. How strongly Muslims born or raised in the U.S. identify with the cultural heritage of their immigrant parents affects the choices they make with respect to marriage. One way of finding a spouse is through an arranged marriage. None of the couples with arranged marriages had ever met before parents or relatives brought them to each other's attention.
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- 2005
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10. Marriage Satisfaction and Wellness in India and the United States: A Preliminary Comparison of Arranged Marriages and Marriages of Choice.
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Myers, Jane E., Madathil, Jayamala, and Tingle, Lynne R.
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ARRANGED marriage ,MARITAL satisfaction ,MARITAL relations ,MARITAL adjustment ,QUESTIONNAIRES - Abstract
Forty-five individuals (22 couples and 1 widowed person) living in arranged marriages in India completed questionnaires measuring marital satisfaction and wellness. The data were compared with existing data on individuals in the United States living in marriages of choice. Differences were found in importance of marital characteristics, but no differences in satisfaction were found. Differences were also found in 9 of 19 wellness scales between the 2 groups. Implications for further research are considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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