Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea : : Reflections and Future Directions / / ed. by Minjeong Kim, Hyeyoung Woo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Berta, Péter,; Chang, Hsin-Chieh,; Jeong, Wonjeong,; Kim, Harris Hyun-Soo,; Kim, Harris Hyun-soo,; Kim, Hyun Mee,; Kim, Ilju,; Kim, Julie S,; Kim, Julie S.,; Kim, Minjeong,; Kim, Minjung,; Kim, Nora Hui-Jung,; Kim, Nora-Hui-Jung,; Kwak, YoonKyung,; Kwak, Yoonkyung,; Lim, Sojung,; Wilkinson, Lindsey,; Woo, Hyeyoung,; Yi, Sohoon,; Yu, Yu Seon,
• HerausgeberIn: Kim, Minjeong,; Woo, Hyeyoung,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 17 tables

Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea provides an in-depth look at the lives of families in Korea that include immigrants. Ten original chapters in this volume, written by scholars in multiple social science disciplines and covering different methodological approaches, aim to reinvigorate contemporary discussions about these multicultural families. Specially, the volume expands the scope of “multicultural families” by examining the diverse configurations of families with immigrants who crossed the Korean border during and after the 1990s, such as the families of undocumented migrant workers, divorced marriage immigrants, and the families of Korean women with Muslim immigrant husbands. Second, instead of looking at immigrants as newcomers, the volume takes a discursive turn, viewing them as settlers or first-generation immigrants in Korea whose post-migration lives have evolved and whose membership in Korean society has matured, by examining immigrants’ identities, need for political representation, their fights through the court system, and the aspirations of second-generation immigrants.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE Negotiating Identities -- 1 To Be Accepted as We Are: Multiple Identity Formation of Filipina Marriage Immigrants through Jasmine Lee -- 2 Money Matters in Immigrant Motherhood -- 3 Developing and Negotiating Social Identity among Korean Women with Pakistani Husbands -- PART TWO Making Lives under Immigration Control -- 4 Precarious Family Making among Undocumented Migrant Women -- 5 Open Sesame: Korean Chinese Kinship Relations and Codes to Reclaim Time in South Korea -- PART THREE Claiming Rights and Building Lives -- 6 Unbearable Weightiness of Marriage: Citizenship and Marriage in Multicultural South Korea -- 7 Integration, Mobility, and Well-Being after Divorce: Patterns and Strategies of Social Relationships among Intra-Asia Marriage Immigrants in South Korea -- PART FOUR Meanings of Multicultural Family and Intergenerational Relationships -- 8 Being Labeled as a “Multicultural Family” in South Korea: The Stories of Korean Wives, Filipino Husbands, and Their Children -- 9 Happy Mothers, Successful Children: Marital Satisfaction and Educational Aspirations among Second-Generation Immigrant Children in South Korea -- 10 Second-Generation Disadvantage: Health of Adolescents from Multicultural Families in South Korea -- Concluding Remarks: Going Forward -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index