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- Title
Relative Economic Position and Female Marriage Migration: Marrying Men in Taiwan Across Borders and Boundaries.
- Authors
Qian, Zhenchao; Tsai, Ming-Chang
- Abstract
In recent decades, Taiwan's cross-border marriages, often involving less educated and rural men, raised concerns regarding these couples' disadvantaged position and how the wives, mostly from mainland China and Southeast Asia, fared and integrated. Using data from the surveys of female marriage migrants from outside Taiwan in 2003, 2008, and 2013, along with comparable data among recently married women in Taiwan, we compare educational assortative mating among marriages between men in Taiwan and women in Taiwan, mainland China, Southeast Asia, and Hong Kong and Macau. The findings from log-linear models reveal that, over a period of 15 years, less educated Taiwanese men have become much less likely to form cross-border marriages with women from mainland China and, to a lesser degree, Southeast Asia. We argue that against the backdrop of rapid economic development in mainland China and Southeast Asia, the advantage in spatial hypergamy for less educated Taiwanese men has declined markedly. Female migrants married in recent years are more likely to marry Taiwanese men with higher levels of education than those married in earlier years. Lack of marriage prospects among less educated men in Taiwan may become another social problem.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; SOUTHEAST Asia; HUMAN migrations; ASSORTATIVE mating; TAIWANESE people; MARRIED women; COUPLES; CHINESE people; LOG-linear models; SOCIAL problems
- Publication
Population Research & Policy Review, 2022, Vol 41, Issue 4, p1451
- ISSN
0167-5923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11113-021-09696-x