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Elusive Belonging - Marriage Immigrants and ""Multiculturalism"" in Rural South Korea (Hardcover)
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Elusive Belonging - Marriage Immigrants and ""Multiculturalism"" in Rural South Korea (Hardcover)
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Elusive Belonging examines the post-migration experiences of
Filipina marriage immigrants in rural South Korea. Marriage
migration—crossing national borders for marriage—has attracted
significant public and scholarly attention, especially in new
destination countries, which grapple with how to integrate marriage
migrants and their children and what that integration means for
citizenship boundaries and a once-homogenous national identity. In
the early twenty-first century many Filipina marriage immigrants
arrived in South Korea under the auspices of the Unification
Church, which has long served as an institutional matchmaker. Based
on ethnographic fieldwork, Elusive Belonging examines Filipinas who
married rural South Korean bachelors in the first decade of the
twenty-first century. Turning away from the common stereotype of
Filipinas as victims of domestic violence at the mercy of husbands
and in-laws, Minjeong Kim provides a nuanced understanding of both
the conflicts and emotional attachments of their relationships with
marital families and communities. Her close-up accounts of the
day-to-day operations of the state’s multicultural policies and
public programs show intimate relationships between Filipinas,
South Korean husbands, in-laws, and multicultural agents, and how
various emotions of love, care, anxiety, and gratitude affect
immigrant women’s fragmented citizenship and elusive sense of
belonging to their new country. By offering the perspectives of
varied actors, the book reveals how women’s experiences of
tension and marginalization are not generated within the family
alone; they also reflect the socioeconomic conditions of rural
Korea and the state’s unbalanced approach to
“multiculturalism.” Against a backdrop of the South Korean
government’s multicultural policies and projects aimed at
integrating marriage immigrants, Elusive Belonging attends to the
emotional aspects of citizenship rooted in a sense of belonging. It
mediates between a critique of the assimilation inherent in
Korea’s “multiculturalism” and the contention that the
country’s core identity is shifting from ethnic homogeneity to
multiethnic diversity. In the process it shows how marriage
immigrants are incorporated into the fabric of Korean society even
as they construct new identities as Filipinas in South Korea.
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