Editing Mail-order bride (section)

====Asian immigrants====
Asian men worked through mail-order agencies to find wives as they worked overseas in the 1800s. Key variables determining the relationship between [[Human migration|migration]] and marriage were demographics, legal policies, cultural perceptions and technology.<ref>{{citation|title=Migration for labor, migration for love: marriage and family formation across borders|journal=OAH Magazine of History|volume=14|issue=1|pages=17–21|author=S Sinke|year=1999|jstor=25163323|doi=10.1093/maghis/14.1.17}}</ref> Imbalances between the number of available women and the number of men desiring partners created a demand for immigrant women. As a result of this imbalance, a new system of "picture brides" developed in predominantly male settlements.<ref>{{citation|title=The Search for June Cleaver|author=Itta C. Englander|url=http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=itta_englander|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629194605/http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=itta_englander|archive-date=2011-06-29}}</ref> In the early 20th century, the institution of "[[picture bride]]s" developed due to immigration restrictions. The [[Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907|Japanese-American Passport Agreement of 1907]] allowed Japan to grant passports to the wives of immigrants to America.<ref name="Browne">Waldo R. Browne (ed.), "Picture Bride," in ''What's What in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and Labor Terminology.'' New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1921; pg. 375.</ref> As immigration of unmarried Japanese women to America was effectively barred, the use of "picture brides" provided a mechanism for willing women to obtain a passport to America, while Japanese workers in America could gain a female helpmate of their own nationality.<ref name="Browne" />