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Marriage, Migration and Gender is the fifth volume in the series, Women and Migration in Asia. This volume, edited by Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Uberoi, was first published in 2008 by Sage Publications India. The other volumes in the series are: Transnational Migration and the Politics of Identity; Poverty, Gender and Migration; Gender, Conflict and Migration; and, Migrant Women and Work. Marriage, Migration and Gender brings to light the various ways in which women exercise their agency, specifically with respect to marriage and migration strategies. Female migration studies show the impact of marriage and migration on familial structures and conjugal relations, and introduce critical perspectives in studying the political economy of gender relations in societies and family studies.

Summary
For women, migration encompasses a vast array of experiences on a global and local scale, "from being hapless girls and women trafficked across international borders for marriage and/or sex work" to "migration for independent work participation". Due to the significance of multiple structures in individual and community experiences, women's marriage migration, i.e., "migration within or as a result of marriage", becomes a socially accepted way to acquire social and economic mobility. Through various studies to comprehend the economic dimensions of female migration, feminist scholars have come to realize the issues involved in polarizing marriage or family migration and labour migration. For example, "Fan and Li have demonstrated, in the case of marriage migration in China's Guangdong province, that labour migration may itself often result in marriage migration as young migrant workers find their spouses among their workmates" In the context of Asia, post-marital residence in the form of patrilocality and territorial exogamy are some of the prominent features of the institution of marriage in the region. As shown by various studies, these critical factors also influence the migration process. "The geographical location of natal kin is an important key to women's (and men's) experiences of marriage, and also separation, divorce and widowhood." This is because of the support the married individual receives from networks such as that of the natal kin, the need to adjust in a new location and doubts on loyalty and contribution, and land ownership and inheritance rights.