Abstract
In recent years there has been a great deal of news coverage on “foreign brides” and “China brides” in the Taiwanese media outlets. The news stories have described recent trends in interethnic marriages in Taiwan. “Foreign brides,” their husbands, and their children now make up an important family form in Taiwan. The growing proportion of female marriage immigrants could well result in societal changes in Taiwan. The phenomenon of “foreign brides” also has an important demographic implication, namely, their numbers can increase two important parts of the population balance equation: the fertility rate, and the number of immigrants.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Akers, D. S. (1967). On measuring the marriage squeeze. Demography, 4, 907–924.
Chen, C.-N., & Liu, K.-C. (2002). An evaluation of Taiwan’s year 2000 census: A comparative study of census and household registration population. Journal of the Taiwan Population, 25, 1–56.
Chen, Y.-H., & Ulrich, M. (2000). Comparative study on marital supply and demand in China and Germany. Population & Economics, 5, 3–17 (In Chinese).
Chen, K.-J., De-Mu, W., & Chen, W.-L. (1986). Causes and consequences of population change in Taiwan. Journal of Population Studies, 9, 1–21 (In Chinese).
Goodkind, D. (1997). The Vietnamese double marriage squeeze. International Migration Review, 31(1), 108–127.
Hsia, H. (2002). Beyond the imaginable coast: The phenomenon of foreign brides and international capitalism. A radical quarterly in social studies research Book Series-09. (In Chinese).
Muhsam, H. V. (1974). The marriage squeeze. Demography, 11, 291–299.
Schoen, R. (1983). Measuring the tightness of a marriage squeeze. Demography, 20, 61–78.
Schoen, R. (1988). Modeling multi-group populations. New York: Plenum Press.
Wang, H.-Z. (2001). A social stratification study of international marriage and indigenous labor market: A case study of Vietnam brides. Journal of Taiwan Social Research, 41, 99–127 (In Chinese).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Yang, W.S., Liu, Yy.T. (2014). Gender Imbalances and the Twisted Marriage Market in Taiwan. In: Poston, Jr., D., Yang, W., Farris, D. (eds) The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7445-2_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7445-2_7
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-7444-5
Online ISBN: 978-94-007-7445-2
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawSocial Sciences (R0)