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Author Kim, Joon K

Title Organized Labor and Civil Society for Multiculturalism A Solidarity Success Story from South Korea
Published Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (161 p.)
Contents Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1-Manufacturing Unauthorized Workers and Advocacy in South Korea -- International Migrants in Korea's Labor Market -- Activation of Civil Society -- Framing Migrant Issues: Mass Media and Public Perception -- Advocacy Outcomes and Social Change -- Chapter 2-Labor Unions, Civil Society, and Immigrant Labor: The Exceptional Case of South Korea
Politics of Culture, Anti-immigration, and Labor Unions: A Global Context -- Korean Confederation of Trade Unions -- Migrant Trade Union (Seoul-Kyunggi-Inchon Area) -- Significance of CSOs and Trade Unions in Korean Context -- Chapter 3-Sex Workers, Marriage Migrants, and Gender Formation in Migrant Advocacy -- Korea's Internationalization of Sex, Entertainment, and Marriage Industries: Gender Perspectives -- South Korea's Sex Industry -- Marriage Migration to Korea -- Government Policies Toward Marriage Migrants and International Sex Workers
Consolidation and Gender Formation of Advocacy Organizations -- Gendered Discourse Regarding Marriage Migrants and International Sex Workers -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4-North Korean Defectors, Koryoin, and the Korean Chinese: The Ethnic Question and the Role of Advocacy Organizations -- Korean Diaspora in Historical Context -- Korean-Heritage Migrants in Korea -- Embedded Advocacy: The Politics of Ethnic Belonging -- Who Is Korean? The Ethnic Question and Heritage Koreans -- Chapter 5-Internal Orientalism and Multicultural Acts: The Challenges of Multicultural Education in Korea* -- Introduction
Internal Orientalism and Multicultural Performative Acts -- Constructing Vulnerable Populations and a Philanthropic Society -- Symbolic Orientalism: Noblesse Oblige and Eating the Other -- Borders of Race and Culture -- Conclusion: Challenges of Multicultural Education in Korea -- Chapter 6-From Labor Rights to Multicultural Human Rights: Migrant Advocacy Organizations and Praxis Multiculturalism -- Migrant Advocacy Organizations and the Multicultural Discourse -- First-order Multiculturalism: Intercultural Education and Cultural Democracy
The Second-order Multiculturalism: Triumph of Civil Rights and Legal Protection -- Paradox of Multiculturalism: Divergences of the Equality Discourse -- The Third-order Multiculturalism: Converging Diversity Toward Substantive Equality -- Korea's Migrant Advocacy Organizations and Praxis Multiculturalism -- Appendix-Website Addresses of the Articles in Table 5.1 (all articles accessed on March 13, 2017). -- References -- Index
Summary For its lessons on the possibilities of collaboration between organized labor and immigrant workers, Organized Labor and Civil Society for Multiculturalism: A Solidarity Success Story from South Korea is of keen interest to practitioners worldwide working within projects dedicated to promoting labor solidarity and multiculturalism
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Labor movement -- Korea (South)
Foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Korea (South)
Multiculturalism -- Korea (South)
Foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Labor movement
Multiculturalism
Korea (South)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781839823886
1839823887