Doctoral Dissertation Research: Citizenship at the Margins:>Negotiating National Boundaries

myra FerreeHae Yeon cho威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校本论文研究的是韩国公民与非公民移民妇女之间的边界构建互动过程。将公民身份概念化为一个关系过程，该研究使用民族志数据来研究公民身份的边界是如何通过话语和在当地扎根的行动者之间的日常互动来谈判和争论的。该研究主要关注三种不同的菲律宾移民妇女群体在公民身份申请方面的差异：在以女性为主的轻工制造业的工厂城镇工作的劳工移民；婚姻移民，与她们的韩国丈夫住在农村社区；和演艺人员，在美国军事基地的俱乐部工作。本项目询问(1)韩国民族国家和社会行动者在为移民妇女融合的实践中使用了哪些话语框架；(2)移徙妇女自己如何再生产、挑战和/或抵制这些框架；(3)公民与非公民的边界是如何在互动中协商的。本研究的结果将有助于理解公民身份不仅是一种正式身份，而且是一个在公民和非公民之间建立界限的互动过程。这项研究增加了对国际移徙的了解，将性别作为移徙者融入当地社区的一个组成部分，并将边界和边缘化同时视为社会、政治和地理因素。研究韩国边缘地区的公民实践，也可以为其他民族国家的类似过程提供启示。它可能会帮助国家和地方政府的政策制定者，移民妇女？美国倡导、服务组织为移民妇女制定更明智的政策，基于不同的地位和经验的移民妇女。

SES-0802721Myra FerreeHae Yeon ChooUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonThis dissertation research studies the interactive process of boundary-making between citizens and non-citizen migrant women in South Korea. Conceptualizing citizenship as a relational process, the study uses ethnographic data to look at how the boundary of citizenship is negotiated and contested through discourse and everyday interaction among locally grounded actors. The research focuses on variations in citizenship claims as framed by three different groups of Filipina migrant women: labor migrants, working in a factory town in the female-dominated light manufacturing industry; marriage migrants, living in rural communities with their South Korean husbands; and entertainers, working at clubs on an American military base. This project asks (1) what discursive frames are being utilized by Korean nation-state and social actors in the practice of their integration efforts for migrant women; (2) how migrant women themselves reproduce, challenge and/or resist these frames; and (3) how boundaries of citizens and non-citizens are negotiated in the interactions between them.The findings of this study will contribute to understanding citizenship not only as a formal status but as an interactional process that creates boundaries between citizens and non-citizens. The study adds to the understanding of international migration by bringing in gender as an integral part of incorporation of migrants in the local communities, and considers boundaries and marginality as simultaneously social, political and geographic. Examining citizenship practices at the margins in South Korea can also shed light on similar processes at work in other nation-states. It may help policy makers in national and local governments, migrant women?s advocates, service organizations for migrant women to create more informed policies based varying statuses and experiences of migrant women.