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An Ontological-Political Analysis of Language Centered on the Utterances of Divorced Marriage Migrant Women: Focusing on Latour’s Collecting Statements

  • 아시아여성연구
  • 2025, 64(3), pp.283~313
  • Publisher : Research Institute of Asian Women
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Gender Studies
  • Received : November 6, 2025
  • Accepted : December 22, 2025
  • Published : December 30, 2025

백우인 1 Jung Kyung Hee 2

1인하대학교 다문화융합연구소
2인하대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to interpret the speech acts of divorced marriage migrant women as linguistic and political practices that reconstruct their modes of being. By integrating Annemarie Mol’s concept of ontological politics with Bruno Latour’s notion of collective statements, the study explores the multiplicity of being and the relational politics revealed through these utterances. Unlike previous research that explains the family dissolution of marriage migrant women in terms of cultural maladaptation or institutional limitations, this study highlights how their speech acts perform reality and reconfigure subjectivity within the entanglement of human and nonhuman actors. Applying the analytic procedures of Noblit and Hare’s (1988) meta-ethnography, sixteen domestic qualitative studies were reviewed, and three speech-centered studies were selected for final analysis. The findings show that the women’s statements emerge as performative spaces where new realities are enacted through entanglements with nonhuman actors such as institutions, languages, technologies, families, and religions. Their utterances overturn the positions assigned by institutional discourses and function as ontological practices of reconstituting the self within relational networks. This study expands the discourse on divorced marriage migrant women into the performance of being and proposes a new interpretive framework in qualitative research that reads speech as an act of ontological generation. Ultimately, it contributes to broadening the ethical and political imagination necessary for coexistence in multicultural societies.

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