Korean Wild Geese Families

Se Hwa Lee

doi:10.5771/9781498583480

Summary

Korean Wild Geese Families: Gender, Family, Social, and Legal Dynamics of Middle-Class Asian Transnational Families in North America explores the experiences of middle-class Korean transnational families, whose mothers and children migrate abroad for children’s education while fathers remain in Korea and economically support their families, throughout transnational separation: before separation, during separation, and after reunification. It discusses the themes of (1) changes in wild geese parents’ relative gender statuses, housework patterns, and spousal relationships; (2) changes in mothering/fathering practices and intergenerational relationships; and (3) wild geese families’ settlement and integration in the host societies and re-adaptation to Korea after family reunification.

Se Hwa Lee interviewed mothers in both the United States and Canada, as well as fathers in Korea, to compare the effects of immigration policies between the two countries in North America and present gender-balanced explanations. Se Hwa Lee also sheds light on Asian documented immigrants’ hardships and different degrees of empowerment and incorporation in the host societies according to legal status, employment, additional education, and co-ethnic community membership. This book offers readers valuable venues to enhance their understanding of increasingly diverse transnational families in North America.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8347-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8348-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 260
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Data No access
2. Organization of the Book No access
3. Trend in Korean Wild Geese Families No access
4. Sample Characteristics: Wild Geese Mothers, Fathers, and Children No access
5. Motivations of Wild Geese Families No access
6. Notes No access
1. Gender and Power in Transnational Families No access
2. Patriarchal Gender Relations before Separation No access
3. Spousal Separation: Turning Point for Women’s Empowerment No access
4. First Resource for Women’s Empowerment: Legal Statuses No access
5. Second Resource for Women’s Empowerment: Paid Employment No access
6. Third Resource for Women’s Empowerment: Additional Education No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Three Approaches to Gender Inequality in Housework No access
2. Gendered Housework Patterns before Separation No access
3. Changing Housework Patterns after Separation: Wild Geese Mothers No access
4. Changing Housework Patterns after Separation: Wild Geese Fathers No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Changing Meaning of Marriage No access
2. Wild Geese Parents’ Definition of Successful Marriage No access
3. Quality of Spousal Relationships before Separation No access
4. Changes through Transnational Spousal Separation No access
5. Maintenance of Emotional Intimacy No access
6. Maintenance of Sexual Intimacy No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Intensive Mothering and Ethnic Community No access
2. Wild Geese Mothers’ Intensive Mothering in Korea No access
3. Challenges to Performing Intensive Mothering in Host Societies No access
4. Korean Immigrant Networks as an Alternative Source of Support No access
5. Constraints in the Korean Immigrant Community No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. Responsible, Involved, and Intimate Fathering in the Transnational Context No access
2. Wild Geese Fathers’ Decision to Remain Alone in Korea No access
3. Transnational Family Separation as a Turning Point No access
4. Transnational Fathering: Remittances and Gifts No access
5. Transnational Fathering: Regular Transnational Communication and Virtual Co-Presence No access
6. Transnational Fathering: Regular Face-to-Face Encounters No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Gender Paths after Reunification by Mothers’ Employment and Children’s Education No access
2. Gender Paths after Reunification by Mothers’ Additional Education No access
3. Sexual Intimacy after Reunification No access
4. Leadership and the Division of Housework after Reunification No access
5. Children’s Educational Outcomes and Re-Adaptation after Reunification No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Note No access
Conclusion No access Pages 231 - 232
1. Recruitment of Current and Former Wild Geese Mothers No access
2. Recruitment of Current and Former Wild Geese Fathers No access
3. Compensations No access
4. Data Collection: In-depth Interviews No access
5. Data Management and Analysis No access
6. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 239 - 250
Index No access Pages 251 - 258
About the Author No access Pages 259 - 260