RT Article
T1 Does the Shortage of Marriageable Women Induce the Trafficking of Women for Forced Marriage? Evidence From China
JF Violence against women
VO 28
IS 6/7
SP 1441
OP 1463
A1 Xiong, Wanru
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1796953342
AB This article examines whether a shortage of marriageable women induces trafficking of women for forced marriage in China as commonly expected. I assemble a data set of 1,215 transactions of women for forced marriage from 2010–2018 using court documents. My analysis suggests that the trafficking of women is not a direct consequence of the local shortage of marriageable women. The fundamental causes are entrenched patriarchal values as indicated by a high local sex ratio at birth, sex-specific internal migration, and the marriage squeeze endured by socially marginalized men in the context of a shortage of women in the population.
K1 Court documents
K1 Sex ratio imbalance
K1 Trafficking of women
K1 China
DO 10.1177/10778012211014565