| Based on common geographical background and the same ethnic relations, Hani who lives in the bonder of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and Laos has developed a unique cross-border marriage patterns during a long-term history of social and economic life, showing the unique customs and styles in mate love and marriage. With nearly three decades of China’s reform and opening up, China has made great achievements in socio-economic and the relations of China and Laos are stable, therefore, more and more Laos Hani woman married into China..breaking the pattern of the original Border marriage. The leap of the Laos Hani woman married into China brings a new changes and challenges for the traditional cross-border marriage in the border areas. This article tries to describe and analyze the entire progress of a transnational marriage by studying the typical cases:date love and marriage, family structure and family status, married life, with the methods of fieldwork, observation, in-depth interviews, questionnaires and so on. Therefore, the paper acquires the qualitative and quantitative research results of international marriages by using push-pull theory and Marriage Squeeze theory of sociology.Thesis, the author of China and Laos cross-border intermarriage family as the Study object, mainly consists of four aspects:First, by Introduced the basic situation of China and Laos cross-border marriages. Learned Cross-border marriages of men with low social status. Include economic status, political status, low levels of education, which is one of the reasons why local men to marry the woman of Laos. Through interviews marriages involved mate concept of love and marriage. With the changing times to understand their mate selection criteria to the rational development. They become more cautious and rational choice of a wife. Found that with changing times tend to diversify their family structure development, and family status still reflects the patriarchal mode by discussing China and Laos cross-border marriages, families, family structure and family status. The survey found that intermarried man his wife and children deal with the relationship of these two relationsplays the leading role..by discussing Internal and external relations, including the relationship between husband and wife and parent-child relationships within the family relationship. Family external relations focuses on the relationship by marriage and neighborhood relations, found that exchanges of intermarried families and relatives of the gender difference, whether it is production and mutual assistance, life care, financial support, families with agnatic exchanges more frequent, and most of the Lao Women’s under the influence of the subjective and objective conditions, little less with her family, and even some have lost contact. These are the main content of this paper, China and Laos cross-border intermarriage involved before marriage, after marriage, the basic living conditions survey, The authors would like to discuss several issues:China and Laos cross-border intermarriage continues to this day, China and Laos cross-border intermarriage for men marital problems, marginalized groups marginalization again, China and Laos cross-border intermarriage whether on the intergenerational impact of the problem. Discussion of these issues is to obtain the impact of national policies, the level of socio-economic development, national geographic and cultural factors on the border of transnational Marriage Transition, to grasp the law of development and the trends of the transnational marriage in new age, to play an active role in fonnulating the policies about minority in the frontier and promoting the border’s social stability and harmonious development... |
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