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The Politics of Containment: Marriage Migrant Women in South Korea

Explore the complex dynamics of citizenship negotiation and discipline surrounding marriage migrant women in South Korea, challenging migrant group categorizations and advocating for migrant rights and maternal citizenship. The book examines the production of migrant containment through immigration raids and cultural integration programs targeting multicultural families. It questions societal perceptions of migrant women's roles and emphasizes the importance of migrant rights and alliances for a more inclusive society.

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The Politics of Containment: Marriage Migrant Women in South Korea

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  1. Contesting the Politics of Containment :  Marriage Migrant women and the Negotiation of Citizenship in South Korea Hae Yeon Choo Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto hy.choo@utoronto.ca

  2. 2 Production of Migrant Containment Ate Virgie: “Why did they come after me? I was just home, factory, church all the time.” Immigration raids as a project of discipline and control: Producing a condition of physical and social containment

  3. Politics of Containment and Marriage Migrants • Race and class-based practice of immigration raids • Challenging the migrant group categories imposed by the state: marriage migrants vs labor migrants

  4. South Korean state and civil society: Marriage migrant women as a separate subject • “multicultural families”: Targets of immigrant integration programs based on maternal rhetorics • “Victims of trafficking and excess patriarchy”: as a measure of class distinction

  5. Contesting victimhood,Claiming maternal citizenship • “where would mothers go, leaving children behind?” • “I heard from many that in rural areas in South Korea, the only young people there are migrant women who married older South Korean rural bachelors, and that the only children born in rural areas are the ones these migrant women gave birth to. If this is the case, doesn’t South Korean society need migrant women very much?”

  6. New possibilities of migrant citizenship in South Korea • Contention over Migrant Children’s Human Rights Act • Open possibilities for migrant rights and alliances and the boundary of citizenship in South Korea

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