This article reviews the literature on masculinity and marriages, focusing on Thai women-farang (Caucasian) men marriages and how these relationships have been conceptualised. The review highlights the shift from emphasising the political, economic and international-relations dimensions that determine marriages to agency analysis, in which individual choices are informed by local and Western cultures/norms, global opportunities and local constraints. While studies have focused on women and their agency, men’s experiences are only beginning to emerge in recent scholarship, indicating both the negotiation and vulnerability of farang men coming from a more advantageous position. Studies of Thai-farang marriages have often centred on the presence of American troops in Thailand during the Vietnam War (1965–1975), while ignoring those that date back centuries. I posit that the history of transnational marriage should be considered in terms of changing structural conditions and that the balance between structural- and agency-centred explanations must be recognised.

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男子气概、婚姻和移民

本文回顾了有关男性气质和婚姻的文献，重点关注泰国女性与法朗（白种人）男性的婚姻以及这些关系是如何被概念化的。该评论强调了从强调决定婚姻的政治、经济和国际关系维度到机构分析的转变，其中个人选择受当地和西方文化/规范、全球机会和当地限制的影响。虽然研究集中在女性及其能动性上，但男性的经验在最近的学术研究中才刚刚开始出现，这表明来自更有利地位的 Farang 男性的谈判和脆弱性。对泰国法郎婚姻的研究通常集中在越南战争（1965-1975）期间美军在泰国的存在，而忽略那些可以追溯到几个世纪之前的。我认为跨国婚姻的历史应该从不断变化的结构条件的角度来考虑，并且必须承认以结构为中心的解释和以代理为中心的解释之间的平衡。