Marriage Migration and National Boundary-Making: A Comparative Study of Marriage Migration in South Korea and Canada

Abstract

This dissertation provides a comparative analysis of marriage migration to South Korea and Canada. It examines how marriage migration has been regulated and how it has contributed to national boundary-making in these countries. In each country's endeavours to manage the population and shape the boundaries of the nation, the entry and integration of marriage migrants are regulated reflecting intersecting social relations of gender, race/ethnicity, class, age, and the divide between global South/North. The research draws upon multiple theoretical frameworks including intersectional and critical race feminist frameworks, political economic approaches to neoliberalism and human capital theory, and critical security studies. In order to comprehend the interactions among government policies, discourses and organizational and individual practices of marriage migration in the two countries,

“Fake” or “Real” Marriage? Gender, Age, “Race” and Class in the Construction of Un/desirability of Marriage Migrants in South Korea

“…This research is based on a qualitative methodological research design devised as part of my PhD research including critical discourse analysis and in-depth semi-structured interviews (An, 2019). Critical discourse analysis is an analytical methodology to investigate language in relation to social relations of dominance and power (Wodak, 2001).…”