재미 국제 장기 분거가족 전업주부의 일상적 삶과 정체성 유지에 관한 연구 : '기러기엄마' 되기 과정

A Qualitative Study on the Life Experience and Identity Maintenance of the Full-Time Housewives of the Korean Wild Geese Family in U.S.A

The purpose of this ethnography is to describe and analyze the process of becoming a wild geese mother. Thirteen mothers from New York, California, and Texas of U.S.A. were interviewed with an unstructured questionnaire. There are several different patterns of the process; 'the short term', 're-departure after returning to Korea', 'a step to initiate their family's immigration', 'sudden and unintentional'. In the first stage of the family living rearrangement, the main issues are about the wider free world, proper time for leaving and proper period for staying, where to live and my husband's independent living. The wild geese mothers perform the concrete tasks about the everyday living for the new mother-child family in the foreign country. They report their subjective interpretation for their new life.