Decentering citizenship : gender, labor, and migrant rights in South Korea / Hae Yeon Choo.

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.

Korea (South)--Emigration and immigration.

Korea (South).

Philippines--Emigration and immigration.

Philippines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

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 are excluded from claims—unless they claim to be victims of trafficking. Moving beyond laws and policies, Hae Yeon Choo examines how rights are enacted, translated, and challenged in daily life and ultimately interrogates the concept of citizenship. Choo reveals citizenship as a language of social and personal transformation within the pursuit of dignity, security, and mobility. Her vivid ethnography of both migrants and their South Korean advocates illuminates how social inequalities of gender, race, class, and nation operate in defining citizenship. Decentering Citizenship argues that citizenship emerges from negotiations about rights and belonging between South Koreans and migrants. As the promise of equal rights and full membership in a polity erodes in the face of global inequalities, this decentering illuminates important contestation at the margins of citizenship.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Decentering Citizenship: Perils, Promises, Possibilities

2. The Journey of Global Women: From the Philippines to South Korea

3. Duties, Desires, and Dignity: South Koreans on Migrant Encounters

4. Everyday Politics of Immigration Raids in the Shadow of Citizenship

5. The Making of Migrant Workers and Migrant Women

6. Workers and Working Girls: Gendering the Worker-Citizen

7. Between Women Victims and Mother-Citizens

Coda. Migrant Rights and a Politics of Solidarity

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804799607

0804799601

OCLC:

1178768981