Cross-border Marriages of China and Hong Kong in the Era of Economic Integration
| Autor: | LAU, SING-PING, 劉升平 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 105 The international labor of division has been changing. The economy of China has gone up and it is difficult to see whether China or Hong Kong is more dominant in the international labor of division. The Hong Kong-China integration programs and immigration policy have made Hong Kong-China marriages to be one of the main modes of marriage in Hong Kong, and also have facilitates diversified types of marriage matching between Hong Kong and China, such as Hong Kong wife and mainland husband, and cross-border couples with high academic qualifications. Mainland women who settle in Hong Kong had a higher social and economic status and educational background than earlier immigrant women. Although the economic capacities of men and women are getting similar, men are still expected to be the "bread-earner". The idea of hypergamy is still prevalent in China and Hong Kong. Women have improved their economic abilities, and working women have great contributions to the family. They change the stereotyped of division of labor in transnational marriages. On the one hand, the economic independency helps women increase bargaining chips and thus they can ask husband to share housework. On the other hand, high educated husband and the mainland husband are willing to share housework and thus to establish intimacy relationship and express appreciation to their wife. However, women still have to do most housework. Bourgeoisies can lower the workload by hiring domestic workers and the working-class families would ask immigrant women or their mother to share the housework. |
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