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A Study on the Transnational Mobility and Settlement Strategies of Third-Generation Korean-Chinese Women: Focusing on Linguistic Capital

  • 아시아여성연구
  • 2024, 63(1), pp.7-44
  • DOI : 10.14431/jaw.2024.4.63.1.7
  • Publisher : Research Institute of Asian Women
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Gender Studies
  • Received : February 6, 2024
  • Accepted : April 18, 2024
  • Published : April 30, 2024

PARK, Jung Ha 1

1한국학중앙연구원

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ABSTRACT

This study uses a qualitative research method to investigate the migration and settlement processes of third-generation Chinese-Korean women who have moved to and settled in South Korea.The researcher focused on their linguistic capital, notably their Chinese language proficiency, and social capital, which served as mobility capital and facilitated their relocation. This study conducted oral interviews with four third-generation Chinese-Korean women who work as Chinese language instructors. The findings reveal that they actively leverage their “intermediary position” and “incomplete nativeness” to facilitate a stable migration and settlement in Korea. First, they migrated to Korea by marrying Korean men. Second, they used their Chinese heritage to acquire institutionalized cultural capital and successfully settled in Korea by leveraging their fluent Chinese language skills as cultural capital while working as Chinese language instructors. Third, they demonstrated flexibility in responding to the changing Korean society post-COVID-19 and aspired to expandtheir transnational mobility by utilizing their linguistic capital. This study is significant because it examines the migration and settlement strategies of third-generation Chinese- Korean women through concrete cases, thereby raising understanding of the diverse life experiences and strategies of migrant women and exploring the sociocultural implications.

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