Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change

Contents
Series Foreword
Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage – From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency
Part I: Regulating Arranged Marriage
1. Nothing “Celestial” about It: Trafficking Underage Brides between Canada and the United States for the Purposes of Arranged Marriage
2. From Family Safety Net to the World Wide Web of Immigration Fraudsters: The Evolution of Arranged Marriages among South Asian Canadians
Part II: (Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage
3. Arranged Marriage as a Process: From Premarital Normalization of Arranged Marriage to Arranged Divorce and Arranged Remarriage
4. Configuring Arranged Marriage as a Foil to Forced Marriage in Multicultural Australia
5. Forced Marriage and “Honor”-Based Violence in Britain: Issues, Debates, and the Question of Consent
Part III: Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage
6 Revisiting Transnational Arranged Marriages among Syrian Refugees in Germany: A Relational Approach
7. From Patriarchal Call to Digital Hunt: Transforming “Arranged Marriages” in China
Part IV: Modernizing Arranged Marriage
8. Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India: Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity, and Emotional Compatibility
9. Progressive Traditions, Repressive Victorians, and the Modern Present: Arranged Marriage and Gender in Sri Lanka
10. “I Wanted to Choose for Myself”: Changing Marriage Patterns in the Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel
Part V: Diasporizing Arranged Marriage
11. Wedded to Tradition? Continuity and Change in Arranged Marriage Practices among British Indians
12. The Changing Face of Arranged Marriage in the South Asian Diaspora in Chicago
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index