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

威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校SES-0802721Myra FerreeHae Yeon Choo研究韩国公民和非公民移民女性之间的边界形成互动过程。这项研究将公民身份概念化为一个关系过程，使用人种学数据来考察公民身份的边界是如何通过话语和当地行动者之间的日常互动来协商和争夺的。这项研究的重点是三个不同的菲律宾移民女性群体提出的公民身份申请的差异：在女性占主导地位的轻工业的工厂里工作的劳工移民；与韩国丈夫住在农村社区的结婚移民；以及在美国军事基地的俱乐部工作的艺人。本项目询问(1)韩国民族国家和社会行为者在融入移民妇女的实践中使用了哪些话语框架；(2)移民妇女本身是如何复制、挑战和/或抵制这些框架的；(3)公民和非公民之间的边界是如何在她们之间的互动中协商的。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边界的互动过程。这项研究将性别作为移民融入当地社区的一个组成部分，并将边界和边缘同时视为社会、政治和地理因素，从而加深了对国际移徙的理解。对韩国公民身份实践的边缘考察，也可以揭示其他民族国家正在实施的类似程序。它可能会帮助国家和地方政府的政策制定者、外来务工妇女S的倡导者、为外来务工妇女服务的组织根据外来务工妇女的不同地位和经历制定更明智的政策。

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.