Transnational Divorce

<p>This book explores the transnational aspects of divorce experiences. </p><p>Transnational Divorce uncovers the stories of four main groups of transnational divorcees at the field site of Singapore including low-income marriage migrant women from less wealthy countries low-income citizen men middle-class living apart together divorced parents and overseas-based citizen divorced mothers. Employing transnational intersectional feminist perspectives the book extends the author’s earlier conceptualisation of divorce biography to propose a new framework of <i>transnational divorce biography</i>. The transnational divorce biography framework provides readers a useful analytical tool to make sense of transnational divorced individuals’ messy experiences in working out their transborder intimacy practices. Meandering through their accounts the author weaves together a strong narrative of inequalities and privileges at the site of intimate life. The book ends with an epilogue on <i>fire dragon feminism </i>where the author discusses place-based feminist mission of activism and resistance.</p><p>Transnational Divorce will appeal to researchers and policy makers interested in transnational relationships family studies and sociology in general.</p>