More than two decades of cross-border marriage migration in Asian countries such as Japan, Singapore,Taiwan, and South Korea have yielded the increasing presence of female marriage migrants in those countries.<\/p>\n
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Despite these women\u2019s active labor market participation, little is known abouttheir working lives beyond the reproductive labor in the family.<\/p>\n
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Based on a qualitative study of Filipina marriage migrants in urban and rural South Korea, this article examines women\u2019s labor market integration and its impact on their voluntary associational activities in local communities.<\/p>\n
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Integrating into the differential gendered labor market, urban and rural women show diverging trajectories of voluntary associational lives. Women\u2019s gender and ethnicity\/nationality intersect with community gender norms to position them in the labor market, as well as in the family and communities.<\/p>\n
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This study contributes to both marriage migration and immigrant political incorporation scholarship by highlighting the working and political lives of female marriage migrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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