농촌거주 다문화 가정의 자녀출산과 양육경험: 결혼이주여성과 시어머니의 목소리를 중심으로

초록

Immigrant mothers in Korea have expressed their difficulties in child birth and rearing processes as well as their adjustment to new environments. Also, in a multicultural families married to foreign women, the ratio of multicultural families considering their Korean parents in rural areas is higher than those from the metro areas and also from the non-immigrant families in Korea. This unique-demographic structure represents the gender-role competing situations between the immigrant mothers and their Korean-mother-in-laws, and the situation's significant influence on healthy adjustments of their family members including their children. However, a lack of research has been conducted on this topic in Korea. The purpose of this study is to investigate the difficulties and dynamics of child birth and rearing processes in the rural-multicultural families in Korea, focusing on the voices of the immigrant mothers and their Korean-mother-in-laws. The authors conducted multiple ethnographic interviews with 6 pairs of immigrant daughters-in-laws and their Korean mother-in-laws from August 1 to November 30, 2011. The phenomenological analysis produced 10 nodes and 3 grand themes, including difficulties during the prenatal period, difficulties and conflicting dynamics between daughter-in-laws and their Korean-mother-in-laws in their child/grandchild rearing processes, and the unhealthy conflict-resolution strategies adopted by the multicultural families. These results might be informative to the academic fields of as well as the service professionals in Korean early childhood education.

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