Korean Immigrant Mothers’ Praise and Encouragement, Acculturation, and Their Children’s Socioemotional and Behavioral Difficulties

Parenting ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-155
Author(s):  
You Jung Seo ◽  
Charissa S. L. Cheah ◽  
Craig H. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Difficulties ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
Korean Immigrant Mothers

scholarly journals Positioning of Korean Immigrant Mothers of Children with Disabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jieun Kim ◽  
Sunyoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Social Skill Development ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
American Schools ◽  
Korean Immigrant Mothers

This study examines the ways in which Korean immigrant mothers take up roles to position themselves while they engage in their children’s education across a wide range of settings—academic, social, and linguistic. Data sources included interviews with four Korean mothers, home and community observations, and field notes. Positioning theory is a research approach that provides a useful analytic means for understanding positioning of Korean immigrant mothers as being parents of children with disabilities attending American schools. The results demonstrate that Korean immigrant mothers seek to learn how to be supportive mothers of children with disabilities by negotiating and facilitating contextual affordances and limitations between home, school, and community in order to obtain valuable potential resources for their children’s linguistic repertories and social skill development and their future success. 

Empowerment or alienation: Chinese and Korean immigrant mothers’ perception of mobile media in constructing their social role and facilitating parenting practices in the US

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoon-Joo Lee ◽  
Huan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Korean Immigrant Mothers

Previous studies have investigated how Chinese and Korean immigrant mothers adjust to life in the US in order to understand their lives and help them to adapt to the new culture. Based on acculturation and mobile media theories, this study explores particularly how Chinese and Korean immigrant mothers’ child-rearing practices in the US are mediated by mobile media. Guided by the theoretical framework of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), we conducted 16 in-depth interviews with Chinese and Korean immigrant mothers. Findings reveal that while going through the acculturation process, Chinese and Korean immigrant mothers attempt to play the traditional social role of mother as defined in their home countries when utilizing mobile media in their new home. Mobile media have symbolic meanings of empowerment and can be used as tools to deal with prejudice in the host country. This study also suggests that mobile media may mediate Chinese and Korean immigrant mothers’ acculturation processes when adopting different types of acculturation strategies (e.g., integration or separation). Implications for practice and future studies are further discussed.

Perceived Experiences of Korean Immigrant Mothers Raising Children With Disabilities in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 104365962110629
Author(s):  
Anna Lee ◽  
Vicky J.-H. Yeh ◽  
Kathleen A. Knafl ◽  
Marcia Van Riper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
Korean Mothers ◽  
Family Demands ◽  
Perceived Experiences ◽  
Korean Immigrant Mothers

Introduction: The challenges of acculturation that immigrant families experience could intensify if they have a child with a disability. This qualitative descriptive study aimed to describe the experiences of Korean mothers raising children with a disability in the United States. Methodology: Semi-structured interviews were conducted based on the Resilience Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation. Directed content analysis was used. Results: Six Korean mothers participated in the interview and 16 codes were identified in relation to the five concepts of the Resilience Model, namely family demands, family resources, family appraisal, family problem-solving and coping, and family adaptation. Overall, mothers thought their families were well-functioning and viewed their quality of life positively within the context of immigration despite experiencing various family demands. Discussion: Findings of this study showed the resilience of Korean immigrant mothers and revealed the importance of understanding and considering unique cultural differences when providing care to this population.

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