... Asia's rural areas. Findings reveal how rural changes in South Korea have created corresponding changes in rural areas in Vietnam through transnational and translocal rural marriages. Given the nuanced revelations of the ways in which the rural forms and changes, this article calls for its...

... publication. Linh Khanh Nguyen's “Geometries of Fractals and Power: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia's Global Ruralities” kicks off a set of studies all focused on global labor migration. In the article, Nguyen lays out a relatively familiar spatial configuration—the urban and the rural...

...Ting-Fai Yu Abstract Based on interviews and ethnographic engagement with Malaysian consumers of post-1990s Chinese-language popular media products (television, film, and music), this article argues that overseas Chinese identity formation may be as much a translocal as a transnational phenomenon...

... and asymmetric articulations between local and translocal socioeconomic pro- cesses as Tibetans in Labrang coped with the intensifying encroachments of competing outsiders by the turn of the twentieth century. Such a perspective can reveal particularly...

... and romantic depictions of the landscape. Videos of (unnamed) Mia0 women in traditional dress circulate amongst the refugee communities in the United States. Sometimes these videos become means to arrange marriages between Hmong men...

... with the outside of the family and is then integrated into the realm of the inside through marriage, she is expected to move in with her husband's family after marriage. The husband, by contrast, is considered in charge of inside kin relations (Brandtstädter 2008 ; Nguyen 2019 ). However, rather than Nguyệt...

... of transnational marriages that makes these Hmong American women indignant. Instead, it is that the male tourists promise escape from peasant life through marriage but only spend a lascivious evening with a homeland girl and then move...

... of work rely on long-term local and translocal social relationships and performance of credibility. Song Jiang's case illustrates the typical journey of a volunteer turned grassroots philanthropist. He was born in the early 1970s in a rural village in Jiangsu province and moved to Haicheng County...

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