Dependent or breadwinner? Vietnamese brides reshaping gender roles at the China-Vietnam border

Abstract Within cross-border marriages, foreign brides’ economic contributions to their families are often underestimated due to the fact that they are always believed to be passport and economic “dependents.” However, this paper examines how the Vietnamese brides take advantage of their cross-borde...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pengli Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-10-01
Series:The Journal of Chinese Sociology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40711-017-0064-3