Forced Marriage - in Pop Culture and Academia

In Pop Culture and Academia

The British movie East Is East shows the practice of forced marriages: a Pakistani father (married to a British woman) forces his oldest son into marriage and, after the son's escape, tries to do the same to the two next eldest sons.

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