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Analyse du contrat amoureux au sein du mariage par correspondance : une étude de cas des unions entre Philippines et Canadiens
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bisserbe, Théodore |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | The aim of this study was to conduct an exploratory research on Filipino-Canadian couples who have met through mail-order bride agencies. In addition, the study explores how those couples formed and ran their marital relationship. This was done in order to understand the social mechanisms that govern the life experience of these couples. We are pursuing Constable's analysis, which believes that mail-order marriages can be romantic relationships even if the logic of desire of both partners is strongly embedded in a historical and cultural context. Furthermore, Simmel's analysis on the process of socialization between individuals and the phenomenon of individualization within capitalist societies is used as further evidence to Constable's analysis. We also explored how the mail-order couple created, what Kaufmann calls the love contract, through their correspondence, their meetings, their daily life and their plans for the future. This contract influenced the interactions between both partners, as well as between the couple and the rest of society. We conducted interviews in the form of life stories with four Filipino-Canadian couples living in the Montreal area (and it's region) and used the ethnosociology method to analyse those interviews. Our results demonstrate that the love contract influenced the couples during the successive phases of the relationships. The social construction of their reality build on romantic feelings and daily work ensure the stability and the functioning of the couple. This helped them move beyond any initial practical reasons that brought them together. Despite inequalities such as gender, divison of labor and income, the women's agency is actively present during many of the couple's steps. For instance, the organization of the first physical meeting of the two spouses, the first meeting, the wife's immigration to Canada, the daily life in Canada and the planification of the couple's future all have the wife's agency present. The love contract and the social |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/12588/Bisserbe_Theodore_2015_memoire.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
