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Sep 23, 2024 · While love marriages place more emphasis on individual choice, arranged marriages highlight the importance of family and community. This difference can influence how conflicts are resolved and how partners interact with each other.
Apr 30, 2021 · While forced marriage has been made illegal in the United Kingdom and love marriages are held up as the norm, arranged marriages end up occupying a grey zone between the two — always suspect and never desirable. Consequently, people who have arranged marriages are treated with suspicion and are regarded as a threat to social cohesion.
Sep 2, 2022 · This shift has given rise to the idea of the ‘situationship’ – a term that describes the grey area between friendship and a relationship. A situationship gives name to a hard-to-define stage of...
- I. Introduction
- II. Misunderstanding The Arranged Marriage
- III. Understanding Arranged Marriage
- IV. Conclusion and Suggestions For Further Research
- Addendum
There is a tendency in academic literature to view the arranged marriage from the lens of the autonomous marriage. In this literature the arranged marriage is compared in a binary to the autonomous marriage.1While a comparison of the arranged marriage to the autonomous marriage should be an unbiased one, the contrary is true. From this binary, both...
1. Biased Binary Approach
The so-called binary approach in the study or representation of the arranged marriage is much criticized in literature.7 This binary is considered ‘liberal individualist’8 or Eurocentric.9 Set in a binary with the autonomous marriage, the arranged marriage is judged by the idealized standards of the autonomous marriage. That which is idealized is individual freedom and conjugal choice. Individualism is considered progressive, there is free choice and the freeing of individual potential.10 The...
2. Biased Definitions of Arranged Marriage
The above bias is reflected in descriptions and definitions of the arranged marriage. Many descriptions or definitions only really offer information as to who selects the mate, eg ‘parent orchestrated alliances’,49 or ‘marriages that are instigated by the family’,50 or ‘arranged by family members or respected members in the religious or ethnic community’.51 Other definitions view the arranged marriage from a biased Eurocentric appreciation. These definitions accentuate ‘individualizing tenden...
3. Evaluation of Biased Science on the Arranged Marriage
The manner in which the arranged marriage is described in the literature studied is a marker of recognizing the arranged marriage as worthwhile only in so far it mirrors the characteristics of the autonomous marriage system. The words employed to describe the arranged marriage reflect autonomy-related values, but exclude community-related values that are foundational to the arranged marriage system. The arranged marriage is thus undervalued for the fundamental characteristics upon which it re...
As mentioned before, arranged marriages are frequently categorized in types, varying from traditional to hybrid to loosely arranged modern versions. They are frequently studied individually, through empirical research which offers a rich, complex, and varied analysis of arranged marriage practices, in diaspora communities, transnational communities...
This article argued for a full renunciation of the binary approach adopted in literature in studying arranged marriage. In the binary approach, the arranged marriage emerges as a lesser conjugal union in comparison to the ideal and prized autonomous conjugal union. Recognizing that the arranged marriage must be valued on its own merits, this articl...
In order to be as impartial as humanly possible, this article does not offer personal opinions on or preferences for the arranged or the autonomous marriage. It is of fundamental importance that any scholar on the arranged marriage system (and many other subjects for that matter) is an unbiased scholar or at least strives to be. Neither advocacy of...
- Naema N Tahir
- 2021
Nov 26, 2021 · Forced marriage is marriage without the consent of one or both parties and is legally recognised as a form of domestic violence in the UK that primarily affects women and girls; FMPOs are civil injunctions designed to prevent forced marriage and protect its victims.
- Kyja Noack-Lundberg, Kyja Noack-Lundberg, Aisha K. Gill, Aisha K. Gill, Sundari Anitha, Sundari Anit...
- 2021
There is a grey area between arranged and forced marriages, the former are not merely to be supported but to be respected, but the court must bend all its powers to prevent the latter.
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Arranged marriages and the ‘grey area’. Forced Marriage Law and Practice. Authors: Joshua Hitchens and Niamh Daly. Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional. Publication Date: 12 February 2021. Law Stated At:
