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  • 1 - Marriages with Foreigners, National Security and Slavic Wives

  • Elena Barabantseva, University of Manchester
  • Book:
    Post-Soviet Brides in the China Dream
    Published online:
    05 March 2026
    Print publication:
    02 April 2026, pp 40-59
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    This chapter examines China’s evolving governance of international marriages through the lens of sovereign concerns, focusing on border stability, population management and national security. It explores how material and affective processes inform the regulations and representations of marriage migration to China. The discussion shows how the Chinese state continually revises its administrative and legal framework for international marriage, and also highlights the historical, racialised and gendered forces embedded in this process. The argument contends that the regulatory framework of marriage migration is shaped by shifting ‘structures of feeling’ that define belonging in Chinese society. These intersecting spheres of state affective and regulatory practices reveal new power dynamics and inequalities in China’s relations with the outside world.