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Governmental and Industry Roles and Responsibilities With Regard to International Marriage Brokers
- Source :
- Violence Against Women. 13:469-485
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2007.
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Abstract
- The unregulated nature of the international marriage broker (IMB) industry endangers women by denying them information necessary to make informed choices with respect to their intended U.S.-based citizen spouses. This article (a) provides an overview of the contemporary IMB industry, including a discussion of reasons underlying women's choices to use IMB agencies to meet and marry U.S.-based spouses, (b) discusses how this industry's marketing of marriages potentially endangers many women recruits, and (c) offers an update and analysis of new provisions under U.S. immigration law that strengthen protections available for women who immigrate as fiancés and spouses of U.S. citizens, including those in marriages arranged by IMBs.
- Subjects :
- Male
Economic growth
Internationality
Sociology and Political Science
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Immigration
Public policy
Poison control
050109 social psychology
Suicide prevention
Gender Studies
Power (social and political)
Nursing
Humans
Medicine
Interpersonal Relations
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Marriage
Spouses
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Cultural Characteristics
business.industry
050901 criminology
05 social sciences
Human factors and ergonomics
Emigration and Immigration
United States
Balance (accounting)
Social Class
Socioeconomic Factors
Government Regulation
Women's Rights
Female
0509 other social sciences
Immigration law
business
Law
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15528448 and 10778012
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Violence Against Women
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6a92fe20119ad278a23acee908117312