Kim, G. and Kilkey, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-0842-7290 (2018) Marriage Migration Policy in South Korea: Social Investment beyond the Nation State. International Migration, 56 (1). pp. 23-38. ISSN 0020-7985
Abstract
This article seeks to contribute to understandings of South Korea’s approach to marriage migration. Situating our analysis of marriage migration policy specifically within the recent emergence of a social investment approach to welfare, we bring together two bodies of literature that due to the methodological nationalism of much welfare state scholarship are usually treated separately. Through an examination of the policy framework governing marriage migration – so-called ‘multicultural family policies’ - we find that successive Korean governments have actively sought female marriage migrants to perform various social reproductive roles as a means to secure the reproductive capacity of the nation, just as feminist scholars have argued the care work of citizen-mothers can be understood. Our analysis also suggests that marriage migration policy in Korea constitutes a distinctly transnational dimension to its overall social investment approach, which is strongly motivated by concerns to reproduce the next generation of human capital.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 International Migration. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in International Migration. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | marriage migration; social investment; social reproduction; transnational |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2017 10:06 |
Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2023 13:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/imig.12350 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115314 |