가족해체 결혼이주여성의 모성실천과 정체성 협상

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the patterns of motherhood practice and identity negotiation of married migrant women experiencing family disorganization in the context of social structure. To this purpose, the study conducted in depth interview with 18 married migrant women who have either been divorced or bereaved of their spouses and analyzed their oral data. The results of this study revealed that there were four types of identity negotiations for married migrant women. This is as follows: ‘becoming Korean with a combination of stable citizenship and motherhood’, ‘becoming mother with a combination of incomplete citizenship and motherhood’, ‘living as oneself with stable citizenship and leading a self-centered life,’ and ‘living in a blind spot in which they are neither a citizen nor a mother’. The key point to these multiple styles is to the repositioning as ‘a mother of citizen’. This means ‘becoming Korean as a mother of a citizen,’ which is a strategic choice available to migrant women as an aspect of their motherhood practice and a way to secure their identity in Korean society.