Current Sociology 1–19 © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0011392115594466 csi.sagepub.com CS Multiple mobilities and entrepreneurial modalities among Chinese marriage migrants in Malaysia Melody CW Lu University of Macau, China Juan Zhang University of New England, Australia Heng Leng Chee National University of Singapore, Singapore Brenda SA Yeoh National University of Singapore, Singapore Abstract This research focuses on the migration trajectories of mainland Chinese women marriage migrants in Malaysia. It finds that their migratory motivations and pathways reveal formerly overlooked mobility patterns that depart from the institutionally organized, commercially arranged, or kinship and social network-mediated migration patterns. The authors argue that the state’s attempts to grow its regulatory capacity, the increasing ‘cost’ of legality and the multiplying of illegal-but-licit spaces through which migrants can navigate produce particular forms of mobile subjectivities which the authors broadly term ‘entrepreneurial’. The aim in this article is to begin to fill this gap in scholarship on entrepreneurialism and feminized migration with an ethnographic study of these gendered entrepreneurial strategies. The authors propose two interlinked concepts in vernacular Chinese – ‘out’ (chu出) and ‘through’ (zuan钻) – as a set of Corresponding author: Melody CW Lu, Department of Sociology, University of Macau, E21, Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China. Email: melodylu@umac.mo 594466CSI 0 0 10.1177/0011392115594466Current SociologyLu et al. research-article 2015 Article