摘要
基于女性主义地理学视角,以广西壮族自治区凭祥市友谊镇中21户跨国婚姻家庭为对象,运用深度访谈方法,探讨了跨境婚姻中越南新娘的日常生活实践及其对自我身份建构的理解。研究发现:1)通过具身化实践,越南新娘逐步嵌入边境村庄的社会交往空间,获得象征性的地方认同与社会归属,打破了对“外来女性”边缘化的刻板印象。2)越南新娘在家庭空间中展现出对物质环境的主动改造,通过重构家居布置与文化象征,实现了对家庭权力结构的协商与文化身份的表达。3)在国家制度性治理框架下,越南新娘面临身份合法化的现实困境,其空间流动与社会可见性受到多重约束,但也在地方层级的制度调适中展现出一定的协商与重构可能。
This study explores the identity construction and daily life practices of Vietnamese brides in crossborder marriages,while focusing on China's borderlands.Cross-border marriages continue to increase in regions such as Pingxiang City and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.This study aims to understand how these women navigate the complexities of cultural integration,social belonging,and gendered power dynamics within a border society.We applied a feminist geographic framework to analyze the intersection of spatial,social,and institutional dimensions in the everyday lives of Vietnamese brides married into Chinese families settled in Pingxiang City.Qualitative methods were employed to gain a nuanced understanding of their lived experiences.In particular,we conducted in-depth interviews and considered the participatory observations of 21 cross-border families in Youyi Town in Pingxiang City,China.The primary objective was to investigate how these women negotiate their identities and daily lives through social practices and spatial interactions within transnational and borderland contexts.Our study contributes to the expanding research on gender,migration,and border societies,while highlighting three main dimensions of identity construction and daily life practices for women in crossborder marriages.First,through embodied social embedding,the Vietnamese brides of these families gradually integrated into local social networks through joint agricultural labor,festival participation,and neighborhood interactions.This social integration allowed them to acquire a symbolic sense of place identity and emotional belonging,thereby challenging the stereotypical notions of"foreign"or"marginalized"women in border societies.Second,through domestic spatial negotiations,these women actively reshaped their domestic spaces by introducing Vietnamese cultural elements,such as decorations,clothing,and furniture.This transformation of the home space represents a hybrid cultural identity and an assertion of gendered agency;the women renegotiated their roles within not just their households,but also the broader social context.Finally,to mitigate the barriers related to legal residence and marriage registration within China's border governance framework,the brides sought assistance through localized institutional accommodations,such as the collective documentation services organized by village authorities.Our study highlights the dynamic interactions between state governance and grassroots agencies,revealing that identity construction among Vietnamese brides is not merely a process of passive assimilation or cultural resistance,rather a dynamic and ongoing negotiation of space and identity.By analyzing the daily practices of these women within domestic,communal,and institutional settings,this study demonstrates how their actions transform the border from a site of division into a lived social space for interaction and redefinition.Notably,our research contributes to the literature on feminist geography by advancing discussions on how women's everyday practices reshape spatial and social relations in borderlands,emphasizing the agency of women in cross-border contexts.Furthermore,our study highlights the role of everyday spatial practices in the reproduction of social relations and the reconfiguration of border governance.Empirically,it offers a rare micro-level perspective on the lives of cross-border brides in China,adding valuable insights into how proximity,cultural affinity,and community ties foster a"low-conflict local integration mechanism,"which is distinct from long-distance migration experiences.Overall,this study enriches the understanding of gendered spatial identities and offers new perspectives on the intersection of space,power,and belonging in borderlands.
作者
任婕
李倚洲
安宁
Ren Jie;Li Yizhou;An Ning(School of Geographic Sciences,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510631;Guangzhou Institute of Geography,Guangdong Academy of Sciences,Guangzhou 510070)
出处
《热带地理》
北大核心
2025年第12期2169-2181,共13页
Tropical Geography
关键词
跨境婚姻
女性主义
身份建构
越南新娘
广西凭祥
cross-border marriage
feminist geography
identity construction
Vietnamese brides
Pingxiang,Guangxi
