Cultural Discourses About Immigration, Mothering, and Disability in Korea: An Ethnographic Interview Study

Abstract

This paper investigates ableism in the context of marriage-labor immigration in Korea, as demonstrated in the circulating discourses about mothering, cultural others, and deficits. I use examples from ethnographic interviews to underline the deficit perspective prevalent in Korean society, associating marriage-labor immigrant families with insufficiency, inferiority, and disability.

 

Cultural Discourses About Immigration, Mothering, and Disability in Korea: An Ethnographic Interview Study by MinSoo Kim-Bossard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/853. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://rds.hawaii.edu.