Cultural Discourses About Immigration, Mothering, and Disability in Korea: An Ethnographic Interview Study
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Korea, Mothering, Disability Studies in Education, Critical Disability Studies
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.
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MinSoo Kim-Bossard, The College of New Jersey
MinSoo Kim-Bossard received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction (Early Childhood Education) and Comparative and International Education from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Kim-Bossard’s research and teaching combines the fields of educational anthropology, Reconceptualist scholarship in early childhood education, and studio-based pedagogical practices borrowed from art education. Prior to joining The College of New Jersey as an Assistant Professor, she was a preschool teacher and art educator in Pennsylvania.