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Author Kim, Minjeong, author.

Title Elusive belonging : marriage immigrants and "multiculturalism" in rural South Korea / Minjeong Kim
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 204 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Marrying into South Korean rural towns -- Loving strangers -- Clashing at home -- Making multiculturalism -- Challenging and transforming the community -- Searching for Filipina sisterhood
Summary With the unprecedented number of foreign-born residents, South Korea has tried to reinvent itself as a multicultural society, but the intense multiculturalism efforts have focused exclusively on marriage immigrants. At the advent and height of South Korea's eschewed multiculturalism, 'Elusive Belonging' takes the readers to everyday lives of marriage immigrants in rural Korea where the projected image of a developed Korea which lured marriage immigrants and the gloomy reality of rural lives clashed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 13, 2018)
Subject Intercountry marriage -- Korea (South)
Foreign spouses -- Korea (South) -- Social conditions
Women immigrants -- Family relationships -- Korea (South)
Filipinos -- Cultural assimilation -- Korea (South)
Rural families -- Korea (South) -- Social conditions
Social integration -- Korea (South)
Multiculturalism -- Korea (South)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Korea.
Intercountry marriage
Multiculturalism
Rural families -- Social conditions
Social integration
Women immigrants -- Family relationships
Korea (South)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017038678
ISBN 9780824873547
0824873548
9780824877842
0824877845
9780824873554
0824873556