Since the late 1990s, Vietnamese women’s participation in international marriage migration has garnered academic and media attention. In contrast, internal marriage migration, a key driver of overall internal migration flows, has received scant consideration. In this paper, we examine marriage and migration dynamics in four rural communes that have “lost” significant numbers of their single women to international marriage and gained brides through internal migration. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2012 and 2013 in four villages and analysis of local marriage registration data and census data, this article examines internal and international marriage migration. We probed marriage migration vis-a-vis marriage markets, internal labor migration and gendered mobility patterns. The increased diversification of marriage with respect to spousal places of origin indicates a reconfiguration of marital norms and practices and changing social constructions of a desirable wife and daughter-in-law. Results underscore the role of labor migration and interprovincial networks in expanding mate-seeking circles among rural youth and in altering marital norms. Female international marriage migration is one piece of a larger puzzle whereby various forms of mobility are intertwined with changes in the realms of gender, family and marriage.

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“我们不再害怕远方的新娘”：越南农村的婚姻市场和性别流动

自 1990 年代后期以来，越南妇女参与国际婚姻移民已引起学术界和媒体的关注。相比之下，内部婚姻移民是整体内部移民流动的主要驱动因素，却很少受到考虑。在本文中，我们研究了四个农村公社的婚姻和移民动态，这些公社已经“失去”了大量单身女性，而通过国内移民获得了新娘。本文基于 2012 年和 2013 年在四个村庄进行的民族志田野调查以及对当地婚姻登记数据和人口普查数据的分析，考察了国内和国际婚姻迁移。我们探讨了婚姻移民与婚姻市场、内部劳动力移民和性别流动模式的对比。婚姻在配偶原籍地方面的日益多样化表明婚姻规范和做法的重新配置以及理想的妻子和儿媳的社会结构的变化。结果强调了劳动力迁移和省际网络在扩大农村青年的择偶圈和改变婚姻规范方面的作用。女性国际婚姻移民是一个更大的拼图，其中各种形式的流动与性别、家庭和婚姻领域的变化交织在一起。结果强调了劳动力迁移和省际网络在扩大农村青年的择偶圈和改变婚姻规范方面的作用。女性国际婚姻移民是一个更大的拼图，其中各种形式的流动与性别、家庭和婚姻领域的变化交织在一起。结果强调了劳动力迁移和省际网络在扩大农村青年的择偶圈和改变婚姻规范方面的作用。女性国际婚姻移民是一个更大的拼图，其中各种形式的流动与性别、家庭和婚姻领域的变化交织在一起。