Essentialist identities as resistance to immobilities : communicative mobilities of Vietnamese foreign brides in Singapore

• Main Authors: Chib, Arul, Nguyen, Hoan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Gender; Intersectionality
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144843
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Global migrations are often associated with, indeed motivated by, upward social mobility. However, the new mobilities paradigm emphasizes structural inequalities of migration mobilities that allow movement for some but mean stasis for others. This article studies the realities of marginalized mar...