Date of Award

1-1-2016

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Sociology

Content Description

1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : color illustrations

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Christine Bose

Committee Members

Glenna Spitze

Keywords

Asian middle-class migrant families, Gender status, Intensive mothering, Korean wild geese families, Transnational fathering, Transnational split households, Immigrant families, Transnationalism, Koreans, Sex role, Parent and child

Subject Categories

Sociology

Abstract

Korean wild geese families are one of the rapidly increasing but underexplored middle-class Asian migrant families whose members live apart overseas and occasionally fly back and forth across the ocean to meet one another. Of these families, mothers accompany their children abroad for their children’s education, while fathers remain in South Korea and send remittances to their families.

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