• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.49-65
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• 2016

This study explores the effects of rural migrant characteristics and conjugal communication on life satisfaction of baby boomer rural migrants. A total of 205 Korean baby boomers, who are living in rural areas in the year of 2013 that had migrated from cities back in 2003 with their families, were analyzed. Their age ranged from 49 to 57 years. The statistical methods used for data analysis were descriptive statistics, t-test, and hierarchical regression analysis, with SPSS Win 20.0 program. The results of this study are summarized as follows: the reasons these baby boomers chose a rural lifestyle were 'for life after retirement,' 'because rural life is good,' 'for health reasons,' and 'for chosen profession.' The level of conjugal communication (M=3.69) and life satisfaction (M=3.23) were higher than average (M=3.0). The variables influencing life satisfaction of baby boomer rural migrants were 'increased property size,' 'better conjugal communication,' 'better health condition,' 'lower levels of money,' and 'length of time spent farming.' Furthermore, in terms of life satisfaction, the relative contributions of these variables are as follows: general characteristics 20%, rural migrant characteristics 10%, and the level of conjugal communication 6%. These results show that conjugal communication is a very important variable, as well as a rural migrant characteristic when it comes to life satisfaction of these baby boomers. Therefore, to improve life satisfaction of baby boomer rural migrants, support programs need to focus on both farming and conjugal relationships.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.95-108
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• 2016

The objectives of this study are to analyze the characteristics of multi-cultural families in rural areas and to classify their types by applying multi-variate techniques and cluster analyses. Data for the study were obtained by a surveying 120 married migrant females in rural areas of Chungchengnam-do, South Korea. By utilizing the factor analysis to analyze the characteristics of multi-cultural families, 16 basic variables related to these female subjects were categorized into 6 factors: 'marriage length and age', 'language skill of migrant female', 'language skill of husband', 'family satisfaction', 'income and education', and 'general living satisfaction in Korea with remittance'. By appling the cluster analysis, multi-cultural families in rural areas were divided into the following 5 types: 'stable settlement', 'average but stagnant', 'below average yet positive', 'high- income with little communication', and 'young low-income'. In all types, it is strongly recommended to develop various programs regarding vocational education for the migrant females in order to increase their economic opportunities as well as social status.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.471-488
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• 2015

This study compares marital satisfaction between male and female rural migrants and explores the effects of characteristics of rural migrants and family values on marital satisfaction. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire. The survey included 483 migrants living in rural communities of North Jeolla Province and South Jeolla Province. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, cross tables, the t-test, correlations, and a hierarchical regression analysis using SPSS 21.0. According to the results, marital satisfaction was higher in men than in women. In addition, the effects of characteristics of rural migrants and family values on marital satisfaction were greater in men than in women. The major determinant of marital satisfaction in men was economical preparation, whereas that in women was family values. Economical preparation for rural living was more important for men, and the sufficient understanding and internalization of rural living was more important for women. In particular, family values represented the main variable between men and women in terms of marital satisfaction. These results suggest that family relationships may be the most important factor influencing rural migrants' marital satisfaction and that spousal relationships may be the core factor influencing family relationships.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.571-584
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• 2005

우리나라의 과도한 수도권 인구집중은 지역불균형발전의 원인으로 최근 지역인적자원육성 측면에서 중요한 문제로 제기된다. 인구이동은 지리적 이동임과 동시에 사회적 이동으로 수도권으로의 인구이동을 유출지역 입장에서 접근해 보면 유출지역의 배출요인과 이주자의 선별성으로 구분지어 검토해 볼 수 있다. 수도권으로의 이주에 이들이 미치는 상대적 중요도를 보면 전체적으로 연령이 가장 중요하게 나타나며, 제조업 비율, 농촌/도시가 이전에는 중요하였으나 점차 최근으로 오며 교육수준, 노동직 비율, 제조업 비율, 그리고 실업률이 중요한 지역 특성 변수로 등장하고 있다. 불균형발전이 심화되어 있는 우리나라의 실정에서 두뇌유출은 현실로 나타나고 있기에 이러한 결과는 지역차원의 인재육성과 더불어 지역내에서 양질의 취업기회를 통한 이들 인재의 확보를 위한 고려가 필요함을 보여주고 있다.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.340-359
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• 1994

This study intends to describe the characteristics of the transformation of the rural society by tracing the changing social and economic processes of traditional clan villiage (Yeolmi-ri, Silchon-myeon, Kwangju-gun, Kyunggi-province) in the suburbs of Seoul Metropolitan Area. Rural society has experienced serious change of the social structure by the ever expanding urbanization and industrialization since 1960's. The suburbs of Seoul Metropolitan Area is the representative case area of such transformation. This study analyzed various chracteristics of population structure of a villiage, the processes of residential movement and the occupational shift of each household of the villiage in terms of household's life-history collected by interviewing with each household. And the whole households of a villiage is divided by two groups of the native clan group and the non-dan in-migrant group. The results of this study are summarized as follows. 1) This villiage is located within a lineal distance of 40km and a time distance of about 30 to 40 minutes, adjoined dy the Joongbu(중부) national highway, the Kyungchoong (경충) industrial road, the local road between Yangpyuna(양평) and Gonjiam(곤지암) and having a advantageous iocational linkage to Seoul capital city. 2) It is a typical traditional dan villiae constituted of dan family Gu(구) one of whose ancestors had appointed to the prime minister of Chosun Dynasty, and until 1979, 56 out of 60 families of the villiage households were clan families. 3) Since 1979, as the villiage invaded by the out-movement of the small scale manufacturing industries from Seoul capital city, labours moved in this vallige from outside and increased villiage size up to 203 households in 1993, consequently the constitutional proportion between the native clan group and the non-clan in-migrant group was reversed up to 28% vs 72% deepening the sociological heterogeneity. 4) Because of the small scale of industries in this villiage and the vicinity with the city of Seoul, the population turnover of this villiage is very high. The turnover frequency is firstly high within same administrative district of gun(군) level and secondly high between this villiage and the city of Seoul. Thus short-distance movement is identified. 5) There is a close correlation between the residential movement and the occupational shift. The most numbers of non-farm native group have the experiences of migration while the members of native farming group don't shift both the job and the place of residence. The inmigrant group had several migration experiences but few occupational shifts. Thus occupatioanl shift is high for the native group while residential shift is high for the in-migrant group. It is concluded that the change proceeded in Metropolitan suburbs was not directed to form the traditional rural village as 'gesund Gebiet' with respect to the ballance among the economic, cultural and environmental adequency.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.185-201
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• 2015

본 연구는 식모와 조선족 가사노동자가 한국인 고용주와의 관계에 있어 유사한 계급적 위치성을 지니며 이중적인 정체성을 형성함에 주목한다. 서울에 거주하는 27명의 조선족 가사노동자와 고용주, 식모 고용주와의 인터뷰를 토대로, 본 논의는 내국인-외국인의 이분법적 담론에서 벗어나 단순히 외국인성(foreignness)이 아닌 여성 노동자가 가진 계급적 열악함이 고용주와의 관계 형성에 핵심 역할을 한다는 새로운 관점을 제시한다. 식모와 조선족 여성은 자신이 살던 지역사회를 떠나 새로운 사회로 공간을 재배치함으로써 스스로의 노동가치를 향상시키는 생존 전략을 취해 왔다. 그들은 시골 출신, 저소득, 낮은 수준의 교육 등 여성 노동 역사 상에서 유사한 노동 지위를 지녔으며 이주 후에도 자신의 정체성이 소속문화, '그곳'에 얽매이고 평가되는 초지역적 정박(tranlocal anchoring)을 겪는다. 또한 한국인 고용주는 식모와 조선족 가사 노동자의 도덕성과 지적 능력을 그들이 가진 계층 차이에 근거해 평가한다. 이러한 일련의 낙인 찍기 과정은 고용주가 가사노동자를 위험에 처한 본인에게 위협을 가할 수 있는 존재인 동시에 애정과 보호를 받아야 할 이중적인 존재로 인식하도록 만든다. 고용주들은 그들이 도시 환경에서 생존할 수 있도록 요리나 언어를 가르치는 등 문화적으로 교육하고 장기적인 생애 계획을 조언해주기도 한다.