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Marriage markets
Name(s):
Asian brides
Nature
Marriage markets transfer girls and young women from the third world to industrialized societies which often deliberately lead them to prostitution.
Broader
Traffic in persons
Trafficking in women
Servile forms of marriage
Moral offences in heterosexual pairing
Reduces
Difficulty finding marriage partner
Related
Prostitution
Susceptibility of the impoverished to drug trafficking
This problem is a member of 2 aggravating loops
Aggravates
Marriage by proxy
Premature marriage
Marriages of convenience
Dependency of women in marriage
[in 2 loops]
Aggravated by
Forced marriage
Arranged marriage
Commercialization of romance
Shortage of marriageable women
Inadequate national law enforcement
Strategy(ies)
Permitting free-choice marriage
Type
(D) Detailed problems