6 Unbearable Weightiness of Marriage: Citizenship and Marriage in Multicultural South Korea

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Series Foreword ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE Negotiating Identities
6. 1 To Be Accepted as We Are: Multiple Identity Formation of Filipina Marriage Immigrants through Jasmine Lee 33
7. 2 Money Matters in Immigrant Motherhood 52
8. 3 Developing and Negotiating Social Identity among Korean Women with Pakistani Husbands 71
9. PART TWO Making Lives under Immigration Control
10. 4 Precarious Family Making among Undocumented Migrant Women 91
11. 5 Open Sesame: Korean Chinese Kinship Relations and Codes to Reclaim Time in South Korea 110
12. PART THREE Claiming Rights and Building Lives
13. 6 Unbearable Weightiness of Marriage: Citizenship and Marriage in Multicultural South Korea 133
14. 7 Integration, Mobility, and Well-Being after Divorce: Patterns and Strategies of Social Relationships among Intra-Asia Marriage Immigrants in South Korea 150
15. PART FOUR Meanings of Multicultural Family and Intergenerational Relationships
16. 8 Being Labeled as a “Multicultural Family” in South Korea: The Stories of Korean Wives, Filipino Husbands, and Their Children 175
17. 9 Happy Mothers, Successful Children: Marital Satisfaction and Educational Aspirations among Second-Generation Immigrant Children in South Korea 194
18. 10 Second-Generation Disadvantage: Health of Adolescents from Multicultural Families in South Korea 216
19. Concluding Remarks: Going Forward 241
20. Acknowledgments 247
21. Notes on Contributors 249
22. Index 253