Do gender systems in the origin and destination societies affect immigrant integration? Vietnamese marriage migrants in Taiwan and South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Hsin-Chieh Chang
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Marriage Migrants

Gendered Nationalism in Practice: An Intersectional Analysis of Migrant Integration Policy in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 976-1004
Author(s):  
SOJIN YU
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Multicultural Policy ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Individual

In this article, I investigate how gendered nationalism is articulated through everyday practices in relation to immigrant integration policy and the intersectional production of inequality in South Korea. By using ethnographic data collected at community centers created to implement national “multicultural” policy, I examine the individual perspectives and experiences of Korean staff and targeted recipients (marriage migrants). To defend their own “native” privileges, the Korean staff stressed the gendered caretaking roles of marriage migrants and their contribution to the nation as justification for state support. The migrants, while critical of the familial responsibilities imposed on them in Korea, underscored their gendered value to the nation (as mothers to “Korean” children) to offset their subjugated position. The diverging perspectives of the two groups are informed by “everyday” nationalism, generated through constantly gendered terms and effects. Bringing together the literature on nationalism and migration through a focus on reproductive labor, I expose how national boundaries are drawn through quotidian practices of gendered nationalism, with significant implications for gender and ethnic hierarchies.

Marrying into South Korean Rural Towns

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
South Korea ◽  
General Information ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Rural South ◽  
International Marriage ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Unification Church ◽  
Matching Process ◽  
Marriage Migrants

Chapter 2 provides the background for the empirical study that is the basis of Elusive Belonging. I first describe the context of rural South Korea, where one in three marriages is an international marriage, followed by a description of international marriage trends in Korea. Because most of my subjects were matched by the Unification Church, an international religious organization that promotes intermarriage, I then explain the Unification Church and its matching process. I describe the Korean state’s policies regarding marriage migrants and its “multiculturalism” project. Finally, I provide general information on my informants.

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