한국 이주경험을 통해 본 중국 조선족 기혼여성의 정체성 변화

The emigration of married Korean-Chinese women to Korea is often criticized as the very thing that created problems in their children’s education, thereby causing them to be stigmatized as being sexually immoral. Married Korean-Chinese women in Korea live as individuals free from the social pressures imposed upon them to be ‘a model wife and mother’ and picture themselves as able parents who can support a family. While most of these women are working in the service industries and categorized as low-class workers, they understand that their experiences living and working in Korea are a temporary process to raise their social class and their income bracket in China. At the same time, they consider themselves ‘civilized’ people with international experiences that are fundamentally different from other people in China. For the married Korean-Chinese women, living and working in Korea is an experience of expanding oneself and struggling at the same time since they are under unfavorable conditions in Korea.