• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.393-408
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• 2009

The drastic growth of transnational marriage since the mid-1990s has been a new challenge to Korea. This article aims to provide a comprehension of new ethnicity by focusing on transnational marriage migration in Korea. A steep increase of foreign brides from China and Southeast countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines can be understood in terms of globalization from below. In this context, Korean trend is similar to Taiwan and Japanese ones. But, there are also some differences between them. The inflow of foreign brides has been gradually weakened since 2005 in Korea, as Taiwan has experienced since 2003. In the ratio of foreign brides among total marriage in Korea, rural area show in average two-fold higher than urban areas. However, most foreign brides have settled down in urban areas in aspect of absolute number. Korean Chinese wives most densely concentrate in urban area, followed by Chinese wives, Nevertheless, there are significant differences among foreign brides' residential areas with their nationalities. In this point, the geography of new ethnicity with foreign brides in Korea is likely to be a multi-dimensional space.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.01a
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• pp.257-260
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• 2012

본 연구의 목적은 결혼이주여성의 건강문제와 이들의 의료기관 이용 실태를 연구하여 의료경영정보시스템을 구축하기 위한 선수 연구에 그 목적이 있다. 연구에 이용된 자료는 2010년 1월 1일부터 12월 31일까지 원주의료원에서 진료한 289명의 원주지역 결혼이주여성의 진료기록을 통하여 조사된 것이며, 결혼이주여성의 일반적인 현황과 미충족 의료 수준을 파악하기 위해 통계청 통계포털자료와 2010년 원주시 통계연보를 활용하였다. 결혼이주여성의 의료서비스 이용은 소득수준과 밀접한 관련이 있으며 의료기관 이용 시 언어적 불편, 재정적 어려움, 가족의 지원 부족이 가장 많이 발생했다. 결혼이주여성의 진료지원 비율은 산부인과 진료비율이 가장 높은 24.3%, 내과 23.2%, 치과 7.9%로 나타났으며 결혼이주여성 자녀들의 소아청소년과 진료비율도 18.6%로 높은 진료비율을 나타났다. 본 연구는 결혼이주여성의 의료서비스 향상과 의료경영정보 시스템의 구축에 도움을 줄 것이다. 또한 이주여성의 건강권 보호를 위한 국가적, 지역적 차원의 노력에 도움이 될 것으로 사료된다.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.27-51
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to examine how the social support was related to the relationships between marital quality and stress from life events among married immigrant women. The subject of this study included 182 married immigrant women lived in Busan. The results of this study were as follows: First, life stress and social support had a independently significant effect on marital quality. Second, social support had a negative effects when the relationship between life stress and marital quality mediated by social support. In varying forms and degrees, social support may play significant roles in relation to life stress and marital quality, but like married immigrant women, limited social support may be no/low effect on the relationship between life stress and marital quality. In this article, we examined the effect of social support related to life stress and marital quality and discuss the implications for research.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.71-85
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• 2012

Marriage Immigrants have greater impact on local communities than migrant workers and foreign students, all the more because their children are relatively more important. Therefore, this study aims to inquire into the fundamental cause on the choice of residential location of marriage immigrants. Residential segregation is often considered to be one of the social problems that intensify locality of residential district. Although migrant workers and foreign students cannot freely decide their residential location at the outset, they could change their residence later on. However marriage immigrants are not free from the residential location choice continuously. The intentional(involuntary) residential segregation brings differential residence of marriage immigrants. The residential segregation of marriage immigrants is concerned with the close relationship of their ethnic background and the community characteristic with focus on Vietnamese and Filipino. The results of this study could be used basic guideline for community development policy for marriage immigrants.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.49 no.5
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• pp.33-48
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to explore factors related to marital satisfaction among immigrant wives compared to Korean wives of Korean men. Participants included 409 immigrant wives married to Korean men and 474 Korean wives married to Korean men, both currently living in Korea. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that there were different sets of variables that predicted marital satisfaction for each group. Egalitarian decision-making was a significant predictor of marital satisfaction for immigrant wives only, whereas for Korean wives, it was the level of their depressive symptoms that was significantly but negatively associated with marital satisfaction. A wife's positive perception of her husband's communication style emerged as the strongest predictor of marital satisfaction for both Korean and immigrant wives. In addition, indicators of the cultural context of immigrant women (i.e., longer stay in Korea and greater frequency of experiencing discrimination in the past year due to their foreign appearance or status) emerged as significant predictors of immigrant wives' marital satisfaction even after taking demographic factors, depressive symptoms, and couple-level factors into account. The findings of this study contribute to existing research by (1) comparing the models of marital satisfaction for Korean wives and immigrant wives, identifying unique predictors for each group, and (2) examining the effect of cultural adaptation on the martial satisfaction of immigrant wives.

• The Journal of Asian Women
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.75-110
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• 2014

This research examines marriage migrant women's interpreting and translation work as an ethnic labor, analyzing its creation and work experiences. Major findings about ethnic labor in the research are as follows: First, Korean gendered and discriminatory- exclusive immigration policy enables the creation of interpreting and translation job to marriage migrant women. While the policy limits settlement and employment fields of male immigrant workers, marriage migration women are allowed to settle and find any job. Second, job security and wage of marriage migrant women's interpreting and translation work are still low, although the job is considered a relatively decent one in foreign immigrant labor market. Finally, they experience conflicts between role as neutral interpreters and identity as migrant women, facing native Koreans' distrust and discrimination against them. In conclusion, this study suggests some issues on marriage migrant women's empowerment and their labor market prospect in terms of the sustainability of this job.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.127-144
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• 2009

이 연구는 한국에 이미 입국한 국제결혼여성들을 분석한 기존의 연구와는 달리, 필리핀의 국제결혼여성들이 어떤 국적의 남편과 결혼하는가를 살피고 있다. 필리핀의 국가통계에 따르면, 한국으로 시집가는 필리핀 여성들이 증가하고 있지만, 미국 등을 비롯한 다른 국가에 비해 그 규모도 작고, 역사도 짧다. 필리핀 신부들의 관점에서 보면, 한국은 자신들이 시집갈 수 있는 여러 국가의 하나에 불과하다. 국제결혼을 하고 출국을 기다리는 필리핀 신부들에 대하여 사회 조사를 실시해 본 결과, 자료가 갖는 한계나 문제점에도 불구하고 남편의 국적에 따라 필리핀 신부와 남편의 특성은 매우 다른 것으로 나타났다. 한국, 일본을 포함한 동아시아 지역으로 시집가는 여성들은 북미, 유럽, 오세아니아 지역 등으로 시집가는 여성들에 비해 매우 젊으며, 교육수준이나 영어구사 수준이 낮다. 또한 동아시아 지역의 남편들은 저학력자가 많다. 부부가 만난 경로에서도 지역간 차이가 나타난다. 북미, 유럽, 오세아니아 지역 국적의 남편들과는 인터넷을 통해 만난 사례가 두드러지는 반면, 동아시아 지역 국적의 남편들과는 친지 및 제3자의 소개를 받은 사례와 학교나 직장에서 만난 사례가 많다. 필리핀 신부들의 국제결혼 과정과 배경을 단순화시키기에는 무리가 있으나, 동아시아 지역과 북미, 유럽, 오세아니아 지역으로의 국제결혼 이주 양상은 필리핀 결혼이주 여성들내에서도 계층화 현상이 이루어지고 있음을 가늠하게 한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.301-310
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• 2017

The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of acculturative stress, ego-resilience, and gender role attitude of married migrant women on their marital satisfaction. For the study, a pre-survey was conducted in November 2015 and based on the result, the data collected in this survey over January 2016 through March 2016 was used. SPSS Win 21.0 program was utilized to proceed the analysis for the attributes of variables in marital satisfaction, correlation among variables, and hierarchical regression analysis. 274 subjects around the Multicultural Center users in Geonggi-do were selected as research targets and drew a conclusion as the following results. First, it showed that acculturative stress of married migrant women left a negative effect on the marital satisfaction and had the highest effect on it among the independent variables. Second, both ego-resilience and gender role attitudes influenced positively on the marital satisfaction of married migrant women. The need for program development to reduce acculturative stress and enhance ego-resilience was discussed.

• SUVANNABHUMI
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.107-150
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• 2013

본 연구는 필리핀 국제결혼 이주여성들이 한국사회에 적응하는 과정에서 나타나는 초국가적 행태의 원인을 국가, 시장, 사회의 상호작용을 중심으로 고찰하였다. 자본주의적 시장경제체제 하에서 시장의 역할은 확대되고, 국가의 시장통제와 사회보호는 약화되며, 사회는 이러한 환경에 적응하기 위한 선택을 하게 된다. 지구화의 영향으로 교류와 접촉의 기회가 증가함에 따라 국제결혼의 가능성이 다양한 수준으로 확대된 것은 사실이다. 그러나 국제결혼이주를 선택하는 많은 수의 필리핀 여성들은 시장경제체제의 소외계층에 속하며, 이들을 맞이하는 한국 남성들도 많은 경우 국내 결혼시장에서 소외된 계층에 속한다. 이들의 초국가적 행태는 지구화 시대에 국경을 넘나들며 다양한 외국어 능력을 갖추고, 타국 문화에 익숙하며, 품위 있는 직장을 가진 '세계시민'의 그것과는 대조적이다. 오히려 시장경제체제 하에서 소외된 사람들의 생존전략의 하나로 볼 수 있다. 기존의 초국가주의 논의가 이주자 개인의 삶과 출신지의 변화에 초점을 두었다면, 본 연구의 국제결혼이주와 연관된 초국가적 행태는 생존전략으로서의 선택이라는 측면과 정착지 사회의 변화에 초점을 두었다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.193-203
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to verifying the mediating effects of religious problem solving on the relationship between religious orientation and marital adjustment of married immigrant christian women. The subjects of study were 302 married immigrant women(185 protestant, 117 catholic) and survey research was conducted by using religious orientation scale, religious problem solving scale and marital adjustment scale. The data analysis was performed by using SPSS 25.0. The study results are as follow. First, it showed negative correlation between the extrinsic religious orientation and marital adjustment of married immigrant christian women and intrinsic religious disposition showed positive correlation. Second, religious problem solving style had partial mediating effects on the relation between religious orientation and marital adjustment. Subsequent studies require qualitative analysis of the religious lives of married immigrant christian women.