ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the effect of money and children on the frequency of marital conflict. Women in less-developed regions have been found to use marriage with men in more developed regions as a means to achieve social and economic upward mobility. Rather than being passive tied movers, these women actively use migration and marriage to deal with gendered and structural constraints in their community of birth. Mainland Chinese migration to Hong Kong constitutes an ambivalent theoretical position in the classification of migration. The China/Hong Kong borders are not only physical and legal, they also reflect a deep economic and social gulf that relegate mainland Chinese female marriage migrants to the status of outsiders in Hong Kong society. Mainland Chinese female marriage migrants in Hong Kong often encounter language barriers, cultural shock, downward mobility, political exclusion, and social exclusion and stigmatisation post-migration.
