Workshop on Transnational Marriages in Asia and Europe

21/09/2007 (All day)

21 September 2007
13:00 - 17:00 hrs, Leiden

Venue
Studentencentrum Plexus
Spectrum room
Kaiserstraat 25
2311 GN Leiden 

Programme

13:15-15:00
Cross-Border Marriage, Riau Islands Style
Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford (University of Wollongong and University
of Sydney, Australia)

Love Across Borders: Turkish Immigrant Youths Looking for a Marriage Partner
Leen Sterckx (ASSR, University of Amsterdam)

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-17:00
The IT Caste: Marriage in a Transnational Work Environment (Bangalore, India)
Michiel Baas (ASSR, University of Amsterdam)

Social Support and Friendship Among Thai Marriage Migrants in Europe
Panitee Suksomboon (CNWS, Leiden University)

Information
Michiel Baas, ASSR
m.baas2@uva.nl
Melody Lu Chia Wen, IIAS
m.lu@let.leidenuniv.nl