2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Claims from the Bottom: Dual Citizenship Claims of Marriage Immigrants in South Korea
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20K13682
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
金 一珠 早稲田大学, 国際学術院(アジア太平洋研究科), 講師(任期付) (80803056)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | dual citizenship / marriage migrants / Korea / Philippines / Vietnam |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In this project, I focused on dual citizenship practices of female marriage migrants from the Philippines and Vietnam who are residing in South Korea to examine emerging trend of dual citizenship practices in East Asian countries. Although previous studies have explained the growing acceptance toward dual citizenship mainly from the state's point of view, this study took ‘bottom-up’ approach to examine dual citizenship claims based on in-depth interviews with marriage immigrants. The project has extended the dual citizenship literature by examining the dual citizenship claims-making of marriage migrant women, focusing on why and how these women engage (or do not engage) in claims-making. By providing an explicit link between ordinary people’s claims and practice of dual citizenship and the normative citizenship ideals of the involved states, I suggest a more holistic approach to understanding dual citizenship.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Due to the pandemic, I was not able to visit the Philippines and Vietnam, which I originally planned to examine how marriage migrants practice their dual citizenship in their country of origin. Instead, I have focused on learning about how the pandemic situation has affected and possibly changed marriage migrants' perception toward their dual citizenshp claims-making. With the loss of English teaching jobs among Filipina marriage migrants, some have experienced downward mobility in their occupational status during the pandemic. Through the follow up interviews, I am examining how this changes has affected their sense of belonging and claims-making.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I will continue to examine the possible affect of the pandemic situation on marriage migrants' attitude and claims-making toward dual citizenship. With the tightening of borders among the countries to their own nationals during the pandemic, they may have realized the value of holding official dual citizenship. On the other hand, depending on the governments' handling of the pandemic situation in their country of origins, they may have felt less need for dual citizenship. Conducting in-depth follow up interviews with the participants will allow to answer these questions.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due the pandemic situation, I was not able to conduct field trip research as I have originally planned. I was not able to visit the Philippines and Vietnam for interviews and participant observation of dual citizenship practices.
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