Drawing on biographical and migratory experiences gathered from Chinese marriage-migrants in Taiwan, this paper investigates the link between migration, subalternity emotion. We examine how emotions are socially, temporarily situationally constructed by migrant women, positioned a condition of vulnerability during migration. Conceptually, we advance that can be turned into resources, practices ...

Focusing on contemporary United States social policy, this essay makes three interrelated arguments. First, it shows how twenty-first century US policy is organized around an aspiration to intensify the immiseration of impoverished people color. Second, contends that legislative and programmatic orientation toward cruelty at least partially galvanized by idea any aspect lives welfare recipients...

This paper investigates how the control and devolution of productive assets are allocated among husband and wife. Theory predicts that bargaining power within marriage depends on the division of assets upon divorce (exit option) and on control over assets during marriage (noncooperative marriage). In empirical applications, bargaining power is typically proxied by variables such as dowry paymen...

The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce, and the surplus shares of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in generat...

There is extensive evidence that married people are, on average, healthier than their unmarried counterparts. It is unclear how much this positive correlation can be explained by the selection of healthier people into marriage. In this paper, I estimate the effect of marriage relative to cohabitation on health and disability. I control for selection into marriage by instrumenting marital status...

PURPOSE The study was conducted to assess the marital status and fertility in adults with epilepsy. METHODS The study group consisted of 240 subjects with epilepsy aged 15 and above, Unmarried males (m) 55, unmarried females (f) 73 and married males 48, married females 64. Data was collected according to standard protocol regarding age, sex, age at marriage and onset of seizure, effect of epi...

The Revised Family Code (RFC) of Ethiopia states the circumstance in which a spouse can claim maintenance. These are during divorce proceeding and, ordinarily, as any person, citing provisions that explicate obligation to supply RFC puts spouses at top rank maintenance claimants’ order. This raises question whether this applies while marriage is intact, proceedings progress, or an ex-spouse. co...

Marriage, migration, and related phenomena such as marital stability, fertility, and investment in human capital may be better explained by studying marriage and migration jointly. This paper examines the role of migration in obtaining joint labor market and marriage market equilibrium. When broadly interpreted, marriage and migration share a number of common features. Both involve search an...

The purpose of the study was to analyze the changing pattern of marriage system of Adivasi Garo community. For the study, Modhupur upazila of Tangail district for Plain Garos and Haluaghat upazila of Mymensingh district for Hill Garos were chosen as the research areas. From these two upazila, six villages were selected randomly for collecting sample population. The sample consisted of 100, taki...

BACKGROUND Girl education is believed to be the best means of reducing girl child marriage (marriage <18 years) globally. However, in South Asia, where the majority of girl child marriages occur, substantial improvements in girl education have not corresponded to equivalent reductions in child marriage. This study examines the levels of education associated with female age at marriage over the ...