Mail-order bride

As a catalog mail-order bride marriage or marriages between partners from different economically strong countries are referred to pejoratively who have come through the initiation of a marriage agency concluded. Already in the 18th and 19th century immigrants in this regard German women in the United States. Today for Dating on the Internet are open to numerous web directories, which are financed by small fees for the addresses.

Motivations of men

Often, the individual experienced difficulty in finding a partner, a motive not to restrict the search to the partner country. From the perspective of some men western women are perceived as too selfish, emancipating and not family-oriented. Older men find in this way often a much younger woman.

Origins and motivations of women

Binational marriages affect all walks of life. In Russia and other countries of the former Eastern Bloc as also many academics seek a spouse from the West. It also plays a role that in some Eastern European countries, there is surplus of women. Women looking for a husband in affluent industrialized countries ( mostly Western Europe, North America, Taiwan, Singapore or Australia), come from all parts of the world, often from the Philippines or Thailand, as well as from Central and South America. Since the opening of the former Soviet bloc are also increasingly women from Eastern European countries in marriage tourism active.

Positive examples and outlook

Often the husbands involved with the families of the women and try the situation in the home countries to improve. The municipality of Udon Thani example, has now recognized the German - Thai marriages as an instrument of local economic development.

Couples found sometimes from their bi-national competence out business enterprise in the field of tourism, trade, transportation and more recently the Internet-based business process outsourcing with a focus in information technology.

The matchmaking between the countries of origin and countries of the marriage runs on a variety of ways. Prior to the establishment of the Internet, relations developed not dissimilar from penpals. Through multimedia communication, such as through contact exchanges on the Internet, or attachment to already in Europe or North America married relatives and girlfriends commercial intermediaries often act only as a service provider, such as making travel arrangements, or because of the suspicious attitude of the immigration authorities often lengthy visa and especially as a mediator of postal addresses.