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From rural life to transnational wife: Agrarian transition, gender mobility, and intimate globalization in transnational marriages in northeast Thailand

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2013-12-16

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13600524
0966369X

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10.1080/0966369X.2012.709827

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2-s2.0-84890084091

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Mahidol University

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Gender, Place and Culture. Vol.20, No.6 (2013), 699-717

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Sirijit Sunanta, Leonora C. Angeles From rural life to transnational wife: Agrarian transition, gender mobility, and intimate globalization in transnational marriages in northeast Thailand. Gender, Place and Culture. Vol.20, No.6 (2013), 699-717. doi:10.1080/0966369X.2012.709827 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/31123

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From rural life to transnational wife: Agrarian transition, gender mobility, and intimate globalization in transnational marriages in northeast Thailand

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Sirijit Sunanta
 Leonora C. Angeles

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Mahidol University
 The University of British Columbia

Abstract

Popular and academic discourses of globalization are often gender biased, focusing on formal and impersonal realms of the market, politics, and technologies. This article explores an intimate dimension of globalization by analyzing the transnational marriage trend among women in northeast Thailand (Isan's) villages. The phua farang (foreign husband) phenomenon in Isan epitomizes the intimate link between the global political economy and individuals' desires, aspirations, and imagination in the private realm of personal and marital relationships. The phua farang phenomenon is embedded in a context of spatial and economic inequalities at the local, national, and global levels, and manifests classed and gendered strategies by which marginalized subjects attempt to transcend the limited opportunities for upward social mobility available to these women. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.

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