The concept of mail-order brides is something of a mystery to most of us. A product fiction of days gone by that no longer exists in our modern world. For some, though, it’s their reality. In fact, ...

In recent years, the mail-order bride industry has gotten a cultural revamp, with younger and more diverse men who identify as "passport bros." This crowd is typically younger than men participating ...

Katya Suvorova's mom became a mail-order bride to escape post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s. Mail-order-bride arrangements often gave men control, leading to exploitative relationships, she says. She now ...

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 The term “mail-order bride” was treated as a punch line – something outdated, ...