Essays about: "Transnational couples"

Found 4 essays containing the words Transnational couples.

1. 1. South Korean Birthmothers Negotiate Everyday Violence and Child Loss Through Storytelling

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Jane Mejdahl; [2023]
   Keywords : South Korea; Transnational adoption; Storytelling; Birthmothers; Everyday violence; Motherhood; Gender; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Adoption scholars have dismantled the story of adoption as a humanitarian effort to save destitute children and framed adoption as a transnational issue underpinned by neo-colonial and patriarchal structures governing the relations between the West and ‘the rest’. This thesis builds on those insights and thus contributes to a growing body of literature within critical adoption studies. READ MORE

3. 2. Connectivity in Action: Activist Comments as Evidence of a Pan-European Public Sphere on Social Media. A Case Study of the European Commission’s Instagram Page

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Theodora Cristina Canciu; [2021]
   Keywords : Activism; Cyberactivism; European identity; European public sphere; Social media; Europeanization; European Commission; Instagram; politics; engagement; comments; citizens; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The features of social media platforms not only enable the communication between citizens and political actors or institutions, in the form of comments, but also help in magnifying citizens’ voices and opinions and facilitating mass mobilization or political protests. The European Union institutions seem to understand the capacity of social media as a locus for citizen engagement, be it activism or deliberation, and have thus developed a strong presence across platforms. READ MORE

4. 3. Transnational Couples : Looking at cultural differences from within a relationship

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, Globala studier

   Author : Nonhlanhla Berglund; Simon Hedin; [2014]
   Keywords : Transnational couples; Strategies; Culture;

   Abstract : Despite a growing literature on transnational couples, little is known about the challenges they face. The aim of this paper is to study these challenges and to identify coping strategies. In order to understand these issues, qualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven couples. READ MORE

5. 4. Childbearing Behavior after Migration: The Experience of Immigrant Women in Taiwan, 1987-2003

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Shih-Hsiu Chen; [2010]
   Keywords : Immigration; Fertility patterns; Transnational marriage; Family formation effects; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This paper indentifies the factors that affect the childbearing behaviors for marriage immigrants in Taiwan during 1987 to 2003, measured by individual level data for 87, 798 observations obtained from QLSFS (Quasi-longitudinal Study on Living Status of the Foreign Born Spouses in Taiwan). This survey contains the socio-demographic information for both immigrant women and their native husbands, which allows us to evolve a study concerning both the time since migration and the interrelatedness between marriage couples’ SES (social economic status) and their childbearing. READ MORE