Tuen Yi Chiu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She is a sociologist specialising in migration, gender, family, and ageing. Her research focuses on cross-border marriage migration, transnational ageing, intimate partner violence, and intergenerational relations.

Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Research Leader, Asian Migration Cluster, at NUS' Asia Research Institute. Her research interests in Asian migrations span themes including social reproduction and care migration; skilled migration and cosmopolitanism; and marriage migrants and cultural politics.

Introduction: Marriage migration, family and citizenship in Asia 1. Transnational marriage migration and the negotiation of precarious pathways beyond partial citizenship in Singapore 2. Penalizing 'runaway' migrant wives: commercial cross-border marriages and home space as confinement 3. Discretionary maternal citizenship: state hegemony and resistance of single marriage migrant mothers from mainland China to Hong Kong 4. From 'social problems' to 'social assets': geopolitics, discursive shifts in children of Southeast Asian marriage migrants, and mother-child dyadic citizenship in Taiwan 5. Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of Vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy 6. Negotiating citizenship and reforging Muslim identities: the case of young women of Japanese-Pakistani Parentage

Focusing on cross-border marriages within Asia, a region where collectivist and familistic values are still prevalent, this book points to the importance of going beyond the state-individual nexus to conceptualise and foreground the family as a strategic site where citizenship is mediated, negotiated and experienced.