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

SES-0802721 Myra FerreeHae Yeon，威斯康星州麦迪逊大学本论文研究韩国公民和非公民移民妇女之间边界制定的互动过程。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当地接地演员之间的日常互动进行谈判和竞争的。这项研究的重点是三个不同群体的菲律宾移民妇女在公民身份要求方面的变化：劳动移民，在女性主导的轻工业工厂镇工作;婚姻移民，与韩国丈夫一起生活在农村社区;和艺人，在美国军事基地的俱乐部工作。该项目的问题是：（1）韩国民族国家和社会行为者在为移民妇女进行融合努力的实践中使用了哪些话语框架;（2）移民妇女自己如何复制、挑战和/或抵制这些框架;（3）公民和非公民的边界如何？公民在他们之间的互动中进行谈判。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，一个在公民和非公民之间建立界限的干预过程。 该研究报告将性别问题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、政治和地理问题，从而增进了对国际移徙的理解。 研究韩国的边缘公民身份实践也可以揭示其他民族国家的类似过程。它可能有助于国家和地方政府的决策者，移民妇女？作为移民妇女的倡导者和服务组织，应根据移民妇女的不同地位和经历制定更知情的政策。

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.