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Decentering citizenship : gender, labor, and migrant rights in South Korea / Hae Yeon Choo.
LIBRA HD6057.5.K6 C46 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Choo, Hae Yeon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women foreign workers--Civil rights--Korea (South).
- Women foreign workers.
- Foreign workers, Filipino--Civil rights--Korea (South).
- Foreign workers, Filipino.
- Women foreign workers--Korea (South)--Social conditions.
- Foreign workers, Filipino--Korea (South)--Social conditions.
- Citizenship--Korea (South).
- Citizenship.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social conditions.
- Civil rights.
- Korea (South).
- Korea (South)--Emigration and immigration.
- Philippines--Emigration and immigration.
- Philippines.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 200 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Decentering Citizenship follows three groups of Filipina migrants' struggles to belong in South Korea: factory workers claiming rights as workers, wives of South Korean men claiming rights as mothers, and hostesses at American military clubs who were excluded from claims-unless claiming to be victims of trafficking. Author Hae Yeon Choo's vivid ethnography of both migrants and their South Korean advocates illuminates the gendered processes host societies and migrants negotiate to define citizenship. As the promise of equal rights and full political membership erodes while global inequalities grow, this decentering illuminates important contestation at the margins of citizenship. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Decentering citizenship : perils, promises, possibilities
- The journey of global women : from the Philippines to South Korea
- Duties, desires, and dignity : South Koreans on migrant encounters
- Everyday politics of immigration raids in the shadow of citizenship
- The making of migrant workers and migrant women
- Workers and working girls : gendering the worker-citizen
- Between women victims and mother-citizens
- Coda : migrant rights and politics of solidarity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804791274
- 0804791279
- 9780804799669
- 0804799660
- OCLC:
- 929985406
- Publisher Number:
- 40026313033
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