Marriage migration, migrant precarity, and social reproduction in Asia: an overview

Piper, Nicola; Lee, Sohoon

doi:10.1080/14672715.2016.1226598

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“…Taiwan are examples) have accorded care workers special immigration status (Bourgeault et al, 2010;Peng, 2016); in others, workers are recruited through international agencies, migrant worker networks, or families seeking private, unregulated solutions to care needs in their families -as, for example, in Italy and Spain (Troisi and von Kondratowitz, 2013) -or for themselves, as in some 'marriage markets' in Asian societies (Piper and Lee, 2016).…”

Section: Care Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

Yeandle

Chou

Fine

et al. 2017

International Journal of Care and Caring

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IntroductionThe International Journal of Care and Caring (IJCC) commences publication with the present issue. In this opening editorial article we set out our vision for the new journal, which -as we will show -creates a timely and significant new space for critical engagement with global scholarship, policy and practice on care and caring. The article has three aims: to describe what will be distinctive and different about the International Journal of Care and Caring; to highlight our ambitions for it, including our determination that the new journal will have genuine global reach and international impact; and to explore some of the many different dimensions of research, scholarship and debate on care and caring which we hope to see further explored and developed in future issues of IJCC.As members of IJCC's Editorial Team, each of us has contributed to the founding concept for the journal, described here. We have been guided in this by our shared conviction that care and caring is a topic of huge and growing importance. We are persuaded, too, that within care and caring there is scope for significant theoretical and empirical development, and a real need for a new journal in which international scholarly debate on care and caring, based in sound research and scholarly endeavour, can emerge and thrive. We also believe that robust evidence and scholarship have the capacity to influence policy, practice and public discourse about care and caring, and in so doing to shape a more positive lived reality of caring relations and contexts around the world. 2These convictions underpin the vital and challenging agenda which lies before scholars and other researchers in the field of care and caring, in whichever part of the globe they and their studies are located. As we will explain, care and caring are central to human life and relations; associated with a wide range of emotions (spanning, for example, grief to joy, patience to exasperation, fear to security; and living and dying); and also -especially as the capacity to extend and save lives increases -have profound implications for the distribution of human, economic and other resources, in global, national and local contexts.Together we have sought international support for the idea of a new journal on care and caring across multiple disciplines, bringing the International Journal of Care and Caring to fruition as a new journal of the Policy Press. Giving it their strong support, distinguished scholars from diverse disciplines have highlighted the unique contribution IJCC can make, describing it as 'long overdue', 'exciting', 'timely and significant', and as a development which will 'bring a new level of scholarship and attention to issues facing our humanity for the future'. They also highlight its capacity to provide 'an important international and interdisciplinary evidence base'; to become 'essential reading' for 'academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in the complexities and nuances of care and caring'; and to 'create new synergies for the rising ...

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Section: Care Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

Yeandle

Chou

Fine

et al. 2017

International Journal of Care and Caring

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“…11 The de-valuation of women's care and reproductive labor and the determination of access to social and welfare benefits based on marital status have subjected marriage migrants to multiple layers of precarity. As Piper and Lee (2016) argue, migrant women are exposed to varying combinations of legal, social, and institutional precarity. 12 Dependent on their spouses for maintaining their legal status, marriage migrants' precarity is exacerbated if their marriage disintegrates before naturalization.…”

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“…I demonstrate how human rights-based activists have mobilized resistance to migrant precarity in two ways: by pushing to increase state regulation of marriage brokers and by expanding support services for marriage migrants. Adopting Piper and Lee's (2016) conceptualization of precarity, I argue that human rights activists cannot effectively mobilize resistance when they fail to understand and address precarity as a multi-layered and multi-sited reality. As a consequence, the ineffectiveness of human rights interventions in South Korea has driven marriage migrants to pursue alternate paths to resisting precarity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Resisting migrant precarity: a critique of human rights advocacy for marriage migrants in South Korea

Kim

2016

Critical Asian Studies

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To cite this article: Daisy Y. Kim (2017) Resisting migrant precarity: a critique of human rights advocacy for marriage migrants in South Korea, Critical Asian Studies, 49:1, 1-17, ABSTRACTSince 2006, marriage migrants and their so-called multicultural families have been the recipients of considerable public resources and attention in the Republic of Korea. Thus, it could be said that marriage migrants constitute a relatively privileged group of migrants in South Korea. Yet significant human rights abuses, including domestic and sexual violence, widespread discrimination, and poverty, indicate that marriage migrants continue to face various forms of legal, social, and institutional precarity. By evaluating the specific trajectories by which human rights activists and organizations mobilize in the name of migrant rights, this paper argues that human rights-based activism has not been an effective means of mobilizing resistance to migrant precarity because of its failure to address precarity as a multilayered and multi-sited reality. In consequence, marriage migrants in South Korea have turned to alternative methods for mobilizing resistance to precarity. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…In 2016, according to the call center for multicultural families in Korea, the cases of family violence were about 13,000. Moreover, since 2007, 19 females in migrant marriages were killed as a result of family violence (Lee 2017). Some cases of domestic violence may be closely related to their difficulties in communication that cause misunderstandings and frustration, anguish and despair.…”

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Exclusionary Labor and Partially Inclusionary Marriage Immigration Incorporation: The Cases of Japan and Korea

Choi¹

2018

korea Observer - inst n.a stud

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Globalization has brought about significant human mobility, along with developments in IT and transportation since the early 1990s, the case of East Asia is no exception. While a huge number of workers in developing countries have been migrating to work abroad, a growing number of women have been migrating, specifically seeking to marry men in East Asia. This paper aims to elucidate which migration theories illustrate labor and/or marriage migration and incorporation in East Asia, particularly in the cases of Japan and Korea, while also examining their overall migration and incorporation patterns. In turn it investigates which factors significantly and differentially affect each type of migration at multiple levels: the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels. Labor migrants are usually excluded from incorporation in their host countries, especially even the case of ethnic Korean from the former Soviet Union countries, Koryŏins, as labor migrants have been excluded in such integration with the reality of the forgotten and disconnected history. On the other hand, marriage migrants have been occasionally included in such integration. Although there has been a significant transition in the migration system theory of labor migration, there is still room to develop the better and more supportive systems. At present taking into consideration the multi-level structures, the migration network theory seems better in explaining marriage migration into the host countries of East Asia. Overall, the differentiated migratory incorporation theory which I suggest could best account for the cases in Japan and Korea when we consider international migration and the extent of social integration. So as to systematically manage labor migration problems and address the problems of commercialized 320 Young-Jin Choi matchmaking business, it requires sharing ideas with grassroots organizations and making concerted efforts to implement anti-discrimination laws and develop policies between the local governments in Japan and Korea. At the same time, education and media can be utilized strategically to enhance the attitudes toward international migrants.

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Marriage migration, migrant precarity, and social reproduction in Asia: an overview

Cited by 68 publications

References 54 publications

Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

Resisting migrant precarity: a critique of human rights advocacy for marriage migrants in South Korea

Exclusionary Labor and Partially Inclusionary Marriage Immigration Incorporation: The Cases of Japan and Korea

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