Based on fieldwork in Vancouver, British Columbia, this study examines the complex
interplay of money, marriage and gender that impacts significantly upon
women's status in society. In doing so, it has worked outward from its
central focus to develop a general interpretation of the linkages between the
vicissitudes of the immigration process, the construction of notions of culture and
identity, and marriage practices and gender relations.
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