Editing Mail-order bride (section)

==Demographics==
Around 100,000 to 150,000 women advertise themselves as mail-order brides globally. Of these, around 4,000 to 6,000 are married to American men every year, according to [[Immigration and Naturalization Service|CIS]] estimates.<ref name="Foo 2002">{{cite book | last=Foo | first=L.J. | author2=Ford Foundation | title=Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy | publisher=Ford Foundation | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-595-30181-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qhMbTDPMrDQC&pg=PA26 | access-date=2023-10-13 | page=26}}</ref> More mail order brides originate from the Philippines than any other country, in spite of the illegality of mail order brides in the Philippines.<ref name="DrScholes" /><ref name="Foo 2002" /><ref name="Stewart 2020 p. 43" />

According to Robert Scholes, in a sample of 6,000 mail order brides, 76% were of Asian origin, while 28% originated from former [[Soviet Union]] countries such as Russia and Ukraine. A smaller portion were from Latin America.<ref name="DrScholes">{{cite web |last1=Scholes |first1=Robert |title=APPENDIX A, THE "MAIL-ORDER BRIDE" INDUSTRY AND ITS IMPACT ON U.S. IMMIGRATION |url=http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/MobRept_AppendixA.pdf |website=uscis.gov |publisher=United States Citizenship and Immigration Services|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926052612/http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/MobRept_AppendixA.pdf |archive-date=26 September 2007 }}</ref> The majority of the American men who married foreign wives were white, {{Vague|date=March 2025|text=highly educated, and successful.|reason=What are the measures of high education and "success?"}}<ref name="DrScholes" />

Of the foreign brides given residence status in the United States in 2002, 50% were from East Asia (mainly China, Vietnam and the Philippines), 25% were from European countries (namely Russia and Ukraine), and 5% were from Latin America.<ref name="Danico 2014 p. 1829">{{cite book | last=Danico | first=M.Y. | title=Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia | publisher=SAGE Publications | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-4522-8189-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZleBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1829 | access-date=2023-10-13 | page=1829}}</ref>

Owing to the large number of single men in rural Japan, mail-order brides from the Philippines became common in the 1990s, and in 2006 the number of such marriages peaked at 12,150. Although the number of marriages has dropped to less than 4,000, Filipinas still make up the largest number of foreign brides in Japan.<ref name="Stewart 2020 p. 43">{{cite book | last=Stewart | first=A. | title=Language Teacher Recognition: Narratives of Filipino English Teachers in Japan | publisher=Channel View Publications | series=New Perspectives on Language and Education | year=2020 | isbn=978-1-78892-791-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcvVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43 | access-date=2023-10-13 | page=43}}</ref>

Due to the rising cost of paying for a bride in China, some Chinese men from working class communities have paid marriage brokers for wives from Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia. Although many of the women from Vietnam willingly marry for love or economic reasons, some are kidnapped and sold by human traffickers. According to China's [[Ministry of Public Security (China)|Ministry of Public Security]], 17,746 women were rescued from human traffickers in a period of less than two years.<ref>{{cite web |title=China's Trafficked Brides |url=https://thediplomat.com/2017/07/chinas-trafficked-brides |website=thediplomat.com}}</ref>