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Week X:
December 6th and 8th : Have Immigrants made South Korea Multicultural?
Tuesday: Workers, Working Girls and Wife--Three Different Filipina positions within South Korea
Thursday: Multicultural South Korea?
Final Due on Canvas December 13th by 11:59PM
Discussion Topic: (reading summary due Friday)
- How can we assess the effects of structure versus individual agency in creating gender/class in South Korea? (Use Filipina migrants as an example).
- Is South Korea becoming multicultural? (Here be careful to make a definition of 'multicultural' and consider whether 'tamunhwa' fits your definition).
Readings:
- Hae Yeon Choo, Decentering Citizenship, chaps 4-7, coda
- Hyun Mee Kim, "Diverging Masculinities and the Politics of Aversion toward Ethnically Mixed Men in the Korean Military," In Gender and Class in Contemporary South Korea, Edited Hae Yeon Choo, John Lie, and Laura Nelson (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California erkeley, 2019) (pdf available on course website)
- Minjeong Kim and Hyeyoung Woo, "Introduction," In Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea: EReflections and Future Directions,(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022) pp1-29. (Available electronically in the UW library system)
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