Fifteen years ago, when I started studying the international dating industry, few people took the subject seriously. The term “mail-order bride” was treated as a punch line—something outdated, associated with lonely men and poor women who migrated from Eastern Europe, Asia or other places to meet their new husbands in the United States.
From ‘mail-order brides’ to ‘passport bros,’ the international dating industry often sells traditional gender roles
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