• Human Ecology Research
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.195-208
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• 2015

This study explored general marriage migration for 180 unmarried Vietnamese immigrant women and identified differences in recognition after the choice of marriage. The methods used were frequency analysis, kai verification, and independent t verification were conducted. The findings were as follows. First, unmarried Vietnamese women showed a receptive attitude towards marriage migration with the less-educated group more likely to opt for marriage migration. Economic benefit expectations topped other factors in regards to the image of marriage migrant women and motivation. Dual national identity benefits were also indicated. Second, the perception of external and illusionary images of the spouses of marriage migrant women was low; however, the perception of good occupations and gender equality was high. A vague expectancy of marriage was also found. The perception was high that children from multi-cultural families would be global bilingual talents and adjust to school; however, the perception of social discrimination or prejudice was low. The perception of social discrimination was low concerning the perception of social integration towards marriage migrant women; however, the perception of identities, cultural differences and employment was present. By contrast, the group opting for marriage migration showed a significantly low perception of social discrimination and difficulty in employment. The suggested measures are to regulate and maintain forms of marriage type, reinforce prior training systems for Vietnamese immigrant women (and spouses), enhance multicultural recognition, and supplement multicultural policies.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.581-595
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• 2008

This study attempts to provide the main reasons and decision-making processes for marriage migration from a Vietnamese' perspective. For this purpose, in-depth interviews were conducted in Vietnam. Interviewees are those who got married to foreigners but are waiting for visas and parents whose daughters are marriage migrants. According to 23 interviewees, the main reasons of marriage migration are as follows: individual aspiration, sacrifice for others, and the circumstantial effects or love. Individual aspiration, in particular, leads to an active pursuit of international marriage. Parental involvement in the decision-making process is rarely found. Decision seems to be wholly made by the female migrant herself based on an individualistic orientation.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.299-321
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate how marriage migration females understand and adjust to the culture of family life in Korea. The study was the conducted by extensively interviewing one member from each of a total of 16 women's multicultural families at a daycare center area in Seoul between June 16, 2010 and July 28, 2010. The results can be summarized as follows: All interviewees were marriage migration females, in the range 20 to 50 years of age, and with middle educational backgrounds. They all had middle-level incomes. Through the content analysis of the informants' responses, three major factors were found to influence the understanding and adjustment of to the culture of family living: personal factors, familial support, and sociocultural support systems. Among the personal factors, the intimacy of the married couples was trouble major factor. An issue that tended to arise was that Korean husbands' traditional culture in terms of their way of thinking was often different from that of the wife's culture. However, husbands supported their wives' outside activities and friendships in order to help them adjust to the culture of family living. The husbands made an effort to understand their wives' original culture and national food, often visiting restaurants that served their wives' national cuisine. In terms of familial support, the most important factors affecting marriage migration females were orienting the education of children to the mother's native language, cooking their national foods, and visiting the mother's nation with the children. Marriage migration females had the following requires: The teacher in the daycare center needed to be interested in children from multicultural families and encourage self-pride in the marriage migration females' children. In terms of sociocultural support systems, marriage migration females are conscious of the indisposition and lack of consideration in Korean life. However, the Korean government and local provinces are concentrating attention on education for marriage migration females in terms of language, because learning the language can help these women to become accustomed to the rituals of Korean life. Marriage migration females make an effort to understand and adjust to Korean family living culture that involves the food culture for ceremonial occasions, folk plays, and places of historic interest. A matter of importance is Korean people's effort to understand and adjust to multicultural family with their distinctive cultures. Welfare policy related to multicultural families involves adopting supportive laws and actions.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제62권2호
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• pp.135-159
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• 2010

본 연구는 결혼이주여성의 결혼적응에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하고자 하였다. 분석에 활용한 자료는 부산대학교 사회과학연구소가 조사한 "결혼이주여성의 자아탄력성과 결혼적응"이다. 분석은 각 독립변수와 결혼적응의 관계를 다변량분석과 중다회귀분석을 통해 살펴보았다. 연구결과에 의하면, 결혼만족은 배우자지지, 가족생활스트레스, 의사소통수준이 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이혼 의도는 자녀수, 가족생활스트레스가 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 부부간 애정은 결혼기간, 배우자 지지, 의사소통수준이 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 결혼이주여성의 결혼적응에서 가족생활스트레스가 공통적이며, 가장 영향력이 큰 변수로 나타났다. 결혼이주여성들의 가족생활스트레스를 줄이기 위한 체계적이고 구조적인 지원이 필요하다는 것을 제안하였다.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.519-535
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to understand a migrant women's married life. The study examined migrant Filipino women's married lives, motives for marriage and migration to Korea, and their married life experiences. The results showed that these women get married to Korean men in pursuit of an economically better life to support their family in the Philippines through marriage migration. As for Filipino women's perceived difficulties in married life, they indicated hardships with redrawing the boundaries of nationality, as well as their husbands' faults or bad habits which are different from what they expected before marriage. Other difficulties mentioned were the peculiar culture of living with parents-in-law, and general difficulties in married life. This study showed that marriage migration results not from external pressure or motives but ultimately from their own decision in a social and cultural context. It was also implicated that Korea's superior position to the Philippines in international economic power has an effect on family relations. The boundaries of nationality are redrawn according to their married life. In addition, it was revealed that the Korean born children of migrant mothers who divorce because of difficulties in married life are in a very poor situation as their national identity depends on their mother's future marriage relations.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.676-694
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 우리나라에 거주하는 국제결혼이주여성을 대상으로 국적별로 지역적 분포를 분석한 후, 충청북도에 거주하고 있는 국제결혼이주여성을 대상으로 시 군별 국적별 지역적 분포, 이주과정, 사회 경제적 특성을 분석하고자 하였다. 또한 우리나라 전체 시 군을 대상으로 국제결혼이주여성의 지역적 분포와 관련해서는 특화계수를 이용하여 범주화 하였고, 충북 지역에 대해서는 토마스법을 사용하여 지역별로 대표되는 국제결혼이주여성의 국적을 유형화하여 분석하였다. 초국가주의는 세계화의 진전에 따라 국경을 초월한 이주가 발생함으로써 지리적으로 격리되어 있던 두 사회가 하나의 사회네트워크로 연결되는 현상을 설명하는 개념으로서, 국가를 벗어나는 초국경적 현상을 설명하는 점에서 세계화 개념과 유사하지만, 이민자들에게 내재된 사회 공간적 구조, 사회 네트워크의 국제적 분산, 초국가적 정체성, 문화적 혼성화 등을 다루는데 유용하다.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.712-736
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• 2013

1990년대 이후 초국적 이주에 의한 국제결혼 부부가 증가하고 있다. 따라서 그동안 이에 대한 많은 연구가 있었으나 접근방법 등의 한계로 결혼이주여성의 이주배경 및 국제결혼 부부의 적응에 대한 충분한 분석이 이루어지지 않고 있다. 이러한 문제의식에 따라 본 연구는 대구, 경북지역 국제결혼 부부 대상의 설문조사 및 심층면접 자료를 바탕으로 이들의 이주배경과 적응에 대하여 분석하였다. 국제이주배경에 관한 설문조사 분석결과 국제결혼 부부의 세계적 사항에 대한 인지도는 매우 높게 나타났으나, 이러한 거시적 배경은 부부 적응에 그다지 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 분석되었다. 그러나 그들 부부의 삶과 적응에 직접적으로 영향을 미칠 것으로 예상되는 상대방에 대한 사전 인지정도는 부부 모두 매우 낮은 것으로 분석되었다.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.393-408
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• 2009

1990년대 중반 이후 초국적 결혼의 급증은 한국 사회에 새로운 과제를 던져주고 있다. 이 같은 맥락에서 논문은 초국적 결혼이주에 의한 한국의 새로운 민족성의 지리적 차원을 검토한다. 중국과 베트남과같은 동남아시아 국가들로부터 여성 결혼이주자의 급증은 밑으로부터의 지구화의 차원에서 이해될 수 있으며, 그런 점에서 한국의 추세는 대만이나 일본과 유사하다. 그러나 한국은 이들 국가와 몇 가지 점에서 차이를 나타낸다. 대만이 2003년 이후 결혼이주자가 감소한 것처럼, 한국 역시 2006년 이후 여성 결혼이주자가 감소하는 추세이다. 외국인 신부와 결혼하는 비율은 대체로 농촌이 도시보다 두 배 가량 높다. 따라서 농촌에 외국인 신부가 많다고 느낄 수 있지만, 실제로 절대 수에서는 도시에 거주하는 이주여성이 훨씬 많다. 특히, 조선족과 중국인 결혼이주 여성의 도시 지역 거주비율은 대단히 높다. 그러나 출신국적별로 보면 이들이 집중하는 지역에 상당한 차이가 있다. 이런 점에서 결혼이주여성에 의해 전개되고 있는 한국 사회의 신민족성 지리는 다면적이다.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.248-256
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• 2008

Purpose: The findings of various studies and policy reports on marriage change, international marriage migrant women and its issues are presented in this study. Method: Research objectives were accomplished by conducting a literature review. The main areas of the literature review included married migrant women, its challenges, and current policies for international marriage migrant women. Result: Women migrating through international marriage are known to face various difficulties due to their migration. Some important obstacles women migrants face in the Republic of Korea are cultural differences in daily lifestyle, language, food, health care services, cultural assumptions, gender structure, family relationships, expected roles within family, interpersonal relationships and more. The plights of married migrant women include commercialization of international marriage, false information regarding the spouse, family abuse, insecure nationality, economic difficulty and unemployment, racial prejudice, and cultural maladjustment. Current support policies for migrant women living in Korea are suggested. Conclusion: This study concluded with policy implications and recommendations for future study. In addition, the author suggests the necessity of programs and policies for the improvement of married migrant women's well-being based on women's health and family nursing dimensions.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.403-409
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• 2009

Due to recent upsurge in international marriages, the socio-cultural adaptation, the reinforcement of family stability, and the social integration support of marriage-based immigrant family have been the major social issues. This paper tries to show the current status of marriage-based immigrants and their children nation-wide. Specifically, it analyzes the statistical trends in international marriages, traits of marriage-based immigrants and their children, their attitudes towards child raising and education, and presents policy measures to enhance their life quality.