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Women Immigrants' Conflicts and Responses in a rural area in terms of Multidimensionality of Culture.

Deok-Hee Seo 1

1조선대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to understand everyday-life conflicts of immigrant women in terms of three dimensions of culture: law, tradition, and disposition(similar to Bourideu's concept of habitus), which are newly conceptualized for a concrete and systematic understanding of multi-cultural situations with which those women should cope. By describing and analyzing the characteristics of conflicts of four women in terms of three dimensions of culture with a life-history approach, it explores what the similarities and differences of the characteristics means for the purpose of understanding the features of rural areas in South Korea as a multicultural society, and of searching for practical solutions for those conflicts. As a result, this paper argues that everyday-life conflicts of immigrant women in terms of three dimensions are originated from a patriarchal patrilineality manifested distortedly against the backdrop of rural areas of Cholla-namdo, which is among the most economically and demographically marginalized regions in South Korea. Also it maintains that a systematic distinction of diverse dimensions of cultures enables to understand every-day life conflicts of those women in a more systematically, and to adopt distinguished solution respectively to the conflicts of each dimension.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.