ABSTRACT Abandonment of women in transnational marriages can be understood in the context of specific social milieus of community and kinship relations and legal jurisdictions associated with specific cultures of law. As a sociological-legal category that dismantles the myth of ‘flexible citizenship’ in transnational migration, abandonment must be seen in an experiential matrix constituted by the graded/differentiated diaspora, legal frameworks, and institutional structures, which frame the gendered citizen. This article reads stories of abandonment in legal documents where testimonies are mediated by legal practitioners for ameliorative justice through the court, in tandem with personal narratives of abandonment as reported to the authors. Through this reading, the article explores the way particular narratives of personal hurt and ‘personal/private’ identity – drawing from membership in the family and community – relate with the public identity of the legal citizen, the public governance of marriage by the protective/paternal state, and the ‘promise of happiness’ in marriage.

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“被遗弃的妇女”：跨国婚姻和性别合法公民

摘要 跨国婚姻中妇女的遗弃可以在社区和亲属关系的特定社会环境以及与特定法律文化相关的法律管辖权的背景下理解。作为打破跨国移民中“灵活公民身份”神话的社会学法律范畴，必须在由分级/差异化的侨民、法律框架和制度结构构成的体验矩阵中看到抛弃，这些矩阵构成了性别化公民。本文阅读了法律文件中关于遗弃的故事，其中证词由法律从业人员通过法庭调解，以改善司法，同时结合向作者报告的遗弃的个人叙述。通过这次阅读，