The Lives of Women in ‘New poverty’ Wiewed from the Foucault's Perspective on Governmentality : On the case of the migrant women-workers in South Korean Agriculture business in 21th century.

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (null) ◽  
pp. 5-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
도승연
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
South Korean

scholarly journals Effect of a Pedometer-Based, 24-Week Walking Intervention on Depression and Acculturative Stress among Migrant Women Workers

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (22) ◽  
pp. 4385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim ◽  
Lee ◽  
Cho ◽  
Lee
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Women Workers ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
Acculturative Stress ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Walking Program ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Korean Chinese

Little research has examined exercise-based interventions meant to alleviate depressive symptoms among Korean-Chinese migrant women workers living in Korea. Thus, this study evaluated the effectiveness of a 24-week walking program on reducing depressive symptoms and acculturative stress levels in this population. This quasi-experimental sequential walking program was conducted with 132 Korean-Chinese women over a period of 24 weeks. Participants were divided into either a standard treatment group (n = 69) or enhanced treatment group (n = 63). All participants were instructed to walk using a pedometer. The enhanced treatment group also received mobile text messages designed to encourage walking adherence and improve acculturation. Participants were asked to complete two structured questionnaires, the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale and the Acculturative Stress Scale, to evaluate the intervention programs. At the end of the program, both groups exhibited decreased depression scores, but the decrease in the enhanced treatment group was more significant both at weeks 12 and 24. Acculturative stress was also found to have decreased at weeks 12 and 24. Our findings show the walking program reduced the depressive symptoms and acculturative stress levels among the Korean-Chinese women in this study. Further studies will be needed to analyze the relationship between walking step count and mental health considering exercise intensity.

Ethnographer location and the politics of translation: researching one’s own group in a host country

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Jeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Hierarchical Relationship ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

As public and academic attention to migration increases, methodological issues related to such research become increasingly important. Although previous efforts of scholars have provided excellent guidance concerning reflexivity and power relationships in research, these discussions have tended to assume a conventional hierarchy positioning and have been limited to the relationship between the researcher and the researched only. Yet, given the shift in the research environment stemming from the increasing mobility of scholars and the increasing interchange of knowledge, as well as emerging auto-ethnographic/auto-biographic research, it is now necessary to challenge these traditional assumptions. This article raises questions concerning the hierarchical relationship between researcher and researched and certain conceptions of the field of ethnography based on my own research experience regarding South Korean migrant women in the UK. Accordingly, with particular emphasis on the researcher’s role as a translator, this article suggests extending our consideration of such relationships to the readership, which constitutes an important, but under-considered, factor in the research process.

scholarly journals Violence for a Good Cause? The Role of Violent Tactics in West German Solidarity Campaigns for Better Working and Living Conditions in the Global South in the 1980s

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 566-580
Author(s):  
Katharina Karcher
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Global South ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Garment Factory ◽  
Fair Trade Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Working And Living Conditions ◽  
The Impact

AbstractTaking up Frank Trentmann's suggestion of ‘widening the historical frame’ in which we analyse the fair trade movement, this article explores the entangled history of violent and peaceful tactics in two transnational solidarity campaigns in West Germany the 1980s: the German anti-Apartheid movement and a campaign for women workers in a South Korean garment factory. Both campaigns had the aim to improve the living and working conditions of producers in the Global South and were characterised by a complex interplay of peaceful and militant tactics ranging from boycott calls to arson attacks and bombings. Although more research into the impact of violent protest is needed, the two case studies suggest that the use of violent protest tactics can contribute towards the success of protest movements if it attracts considerable media attention, the targeted companies face significant social and political pressure and the cumulative disruption costs clearly exceed the concession costs.

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