An Empirical Study of Cross-Border Marriage and Marriage Trafficking in China- Vietnam Border Areas

Marriage migration, as a form of family-related migration, has long been marginalized theoretically and empirically. Marriage migration has been a growing form of cross-border movement in Asia, including the China-Vietnam border areas. The rapidly increasing migration flows are accompanied by a thriving human trafficking trade market. The aim of this study is to explore the hidden facts behind cross-border marriage and marriage trafficking in China-Vietnam border areas. The study combined quantitative and qualitative methods, using the data from a survey conducted In 2009-2010 and an in-depth interview study conducted in 2016. The aim of the quantitative method is to analyze the economic, political, and social situations of cross-border non-trafficked marriage migrants and the marriage trafficking victims; and to make comparisons in demographic characteristics and economic resources between the female Vietnamese marriage migrants/trafficked victims and their native Chinese male spouses. The aim of the qualitative method is to reveal the hidden information of the trafficked marriage migrants, including the trafficking process they experienced, their life and work conditions in China, their escape actions and the frequency of returning to their hometown after being trafficked into marriage. Also, the qualitative method aims to explore the anti-trafficking practices and the villagers’ attitudes towards the purchasing of women in the studied area.

Author

• Liang, Xiaochen

Language

• en

Keyword

• marriage migration
• China-Vietnam border areas
• marriage trafficking

Date created

• 2018

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Deitch, Cynthia

Committee Member(s)

• Kelso, Michelle

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/df65v8199