Cross Border Marriages (CBM’s) Between Pakistan To Developed Countries: A Socio-Economic Perspective

Abstract

According to many researches, the third world youth crave to go to developed countries just merely to get sustainable economic development. To accomplish their wish they use every possible way like cross border marriages (CBM’S) is one of them. The basic and main purpose of CBM’S is financial sustainability neither culture nor religion or others. The findings shows that most Pakistanis leave Pakistan only for economic stability, 10 per cent for better education, 10 per cent for improving living standard, while 16.6 per cent for economic (These all are simply economic reasons to pay court to women on inter-racial grounds) and education reasons while 3.4% leave for political or criminal issue. Due to these thoughts these people flipside to their native areas with only economic firmness rather social attitudes, moral attitudes behaviors, norms, myths and religion. The study shows that men do CBM’S to get firmness even they have families in their native areas. Second family formation is the easy way to get their desires, i.e. legal cover and residence. After satisfying their needs they come back to their native areas, even they leave behind their offspring because they give priority to their inhabitant families. In this situation foreigner wife or offspring face problems economically, socially and mentally. This article aims to describe that economic reasons are the basic phenomena of CBM’S for the third world countries’ people who prefer to go to developed countries and to live without facing legal issues.