What is Mail-order bride?
'''Mail-order brides''' are [[woman|women]] who list themselves in catalogs and are picked by [[male]]s for [[marriage]]. These are usually women from [[Developing country|developing countries]], hoping for a better life in a [[developed country]] through a foreign husband.<ref>{{Citation|last=Simons|first=Lisa|title=Mail Order Brides: The Legal Framework and Possibilities for Change|date=1999|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780333983461_7|work=Gender and Immigration|pages=127–143|place=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-0-333-74178-8|access-date=2024-10-05}}</ref> The term ''mail-order bride'' dates back to the 19th century. These brides often come from one country and [[immigration|immigrate]] to another for marriage reasons. The women's motivations may include: * getting away from [[Unemployment#Gender and age|unemployment]], gender-pay gaps, malnutrition, or inflation in their home country * getting a foreign husband (which they may believe would be more masculine and/or better able to satisfy their sexual and emotional needs than the men within their own country<ref>{{Cite book|title=Seeking Western men: email-order brides under China's global rise|last=Liu|first=Monica|date=2023|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-1-5036-3247-9|series=Globalization in everyday life|location=Stanford, California}}</ref>) * living in another country which they may personally like better * moving and then sponsoring the rest of their family's immigration to that country Besides these main personal motivations, mail-order brides were used in many places across the world where there was a shortage of women, such as in: * Japan, where there was a lack of Japanese women who wanted to live in the countryside, and so farmer men were encouraged to get mail-order brides from other Asian countries<ref>{{Cite book|title=Transformation of the intimate and the public in Asian modernity|date=2014|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-25223-3|editor-last=Ochiai|editor-first=Emiko|series=The intimate and the public in Asian