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Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea: Reflections and Future Directions aims to reinvigorate contemporary discussions about Korean families that include immigrants by expanding the scope of what we consider to be multicultural families to include the families of undocumented migrant workers, divorced marriage immigrants, the families of Korean women with immigrant husbands, and by providing a nuanced look at their lives in Korea, not as newcomers but as first-generation immigrants.
List of contents
List of Figures and Tables
Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Introduction to
Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea by Minjeong Kim and Hyeyoung Woo
Part I: Negotiating Identities
Chapter 1: To Be Accepted as We Are: Multiple Identity Formation of Filipina Marriage Immigrants through Jasmine Lee by Ilju Kim
Chapter 2: Money Matters in Immigrant Motherhood by Julie S. Kim
Chapter 3: Developing and Negotiating Social Identity among Korean Women with Pakistani Husbands by YoonKyung Kwak
Part II: Making Lives under Immigration Control
Chapter 4: Precarious Family Making among Undocumented Migrant Women by Hyun Mee Kim and Yu Seon Yu
Chapter 5: Open Sesame: Korean Chinese Kinship Relations and Codes to Reclaim Time in South Korea by Sohoon Yi
Part III: Claiming Rights and Building Lives
Chapter 6: Unbearable Weightiness of Marriage: Citizenship and Marriage in Multicultural South Korea by Nora Hui-Jung Kim
Chapter 7: Integration, Mobility, and Wellbeing after Divorce: Patterns and Strategies of Social Relationships among Intra-Asia Marriage Immigrants in South Korea by Hsin-Chieh Chang
Part IV: Meanings of Multicultural Family and Intergenerational Relationships
Chapter 8: Being Labeled as a “Multicultural Family” in South Korea: The Stories of Korean Wives, Filipino Husbands, and Their Children by Minjung Kim
Chapter 9: Happy Mothers, Successful Children: Marital Satisfaction and Educational Aspirations among Second-Generation Immigrant Children in South Korea by Harris Hyun-soo Kim
Chapter 10: Second Generation Disadvantage: Health of Adolescents from Multicultural Families in South Korea by Hyeyoung Woo, Lindsey Wilkinson, Wonjeong Jeong and Sojung Lim
Concluding Remarks: Going Forward by Minjeong Kim
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
About the Editors
Index
About the author
MINJEONG KIM is an associate professor of sociology at San Diego State University in California. She is the author of
Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea.
HYEYOUNG WOO is a professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Asian Studies at Portland State University in Oregon. She is the co-editor (with Hyunjoon Park) of
Korean Families Yesterday and Today.
