| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 輔導與諮商學系所 === 97 === English Abstract
The purposes of this research are to explore the experiences of women’s marital power of cross-border marriage from Southeast Asia before and after finding employment and how the employed experiences influence and change their experiences of marital power. The researcher uses semi-structural guidelines to interview five women of cross-border marriage from Southeast Asia (included Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, and the Philippine) to gather the data. And phenomenological research methods and feminist perspective are adopted to analyze the data. The major findings are summarized as following:
1. The experience of marital power of the women of cross-border marriage from Southeast Asia before working:
(1) The participants’ marital power from the cross-border marriage to the employment is sustained from the premarital relation.
(2) When becoming a daughter-in-law in patrilocal marriage, their marital power declines.
(3) They rely on their husbands in economic, so they can’t handle the autonomy of economics.
(4) After the cross-border marriage, they change their role and duty voluntarily for their husbands and family. And they consider that they have no right to force their husbands to change their behaviors and just let it go.
(5) Their husbands and relatives-in-law govern their procreation, and for those who can’t bear a boy, their marital power still remain weak and are in low marital positions.
2. The experience of marital power of the women of cross-border marriage from Southeast Asia after working:
(1) After working, those who are in the low marriage position increase the marital power and those in the high marriage position decrease.
(2) After working, the trend of marital power depend on their attitude of the competition agaist their husband.
(3) They contend with their husbands for marital power by giving financial assistance to the family of their own parents.
(4) They have difficulty in competing their body autonomy against their husbands.
(5) All of them have the courage to request their husbands to attend the domestic chores and the duty to nurture their children.
(6) Their husbands and relative-in-law still control the decision-making power of major household tasks.
(7) The closer marital power, the equaller duty and power of parent.
3. The effect and change of the marital power of the women of cross-border marriage from Southeast Asia after working:
(1) Whether they obtain permission from their husbands to get a job displays the clue of the relation of marital power after working.
(2) After working, whether they would acquire the autonomy of economics or not depends on the extent of their past economic dependence.
(3) Those who have regular and full-time jobs are easier to compete for their marital power.
(4) If they could become the breadwinner, they could compete for their marital power and even exercise control.
(5) Those who have professional skills and engage in the dominant job dare to compete for the marital status.
In the end, the researcher draws the conclusions and suggestions according the discussion and analysis, and makes the introspections of the research.
Key words: cross-border marriage, women from Southeast Asia, marital power,
employment
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