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http://dx.doi.org/10.5934/kjhe.2013.22.3.421

Deterritorialization and Transnational Networks of the Multicultural Families  

Kim, Min-Jeong (Department of Consumer Information, KeiMyung University)
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Korean Journal of Human Ecology / v.22, no.3, 2013 , pp. 421-436 More about this Journal
Abstract
International marriage is composed over 10% among total marriage in Korea. This study tried to know what kinds of social networks, especially transnational networks, the immigrant wives use for the process of being married and for the adjusting to marriage and Korean culture, and how their Korean families also are affected by the transnational networks. For the purposes of this study FGI and the interviews were applied for the immigrant wives, the multicultural husbands and the specialist groups in metropolitan city DaeGu. 18 migrant interviewees from Vietnam, China, Philippine, etc. were collected by the snow-ball sampling. 5 husbands were collected from the self-help meeting in multicultural families support center. The transnational networks of the immigrant wives in DaeGu were deterritorialized and reterritorialized actively. Migrant wives managed the close relationship with their family members of motherland, and had the networks sticky with relatives, friends, and other fore-immigrant wives from the same countries. Their migrations are characterized as 'chain migration'. Even though they acquired the Korean nationality, they have the transnational identities. They and their Korean families are interrelated and internetworked in exchanging economic resources as goods and money, human beings, love, child caring, foods and culture over local boundaries.
Keywords
the migrant wives; chain migration; deterritorialization; reterritorialization; the transnational networks;
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