Transnational migration and gender capital

South Korean women’s guesthouse business in the Philippines

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11147153
AutoresDohye Kim (0000-0002-7855-4324, Duksung Women’s University, Seoul, The Republic of Korea, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume34
Fascículo3
Páginas513-529
Data de publicação2025-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAsian and Pacific migration journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0117-1968 • E-ISSN: 2057-049X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/01171968251378600
OpenAlexW4414267383
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas17

This study explores the lives of the South Korean women crossing the Philippine border with their husbands to elaborate the ways in which women’s gender capital shapes both opportunity and obstacle in the transnational context. Based on an ethnographic fieldwork, this research revealed that South Korean wives became breadwinners by turning some of the rooms in their homes into guestrooms to accommodate teenage South Korean English learners. Drawing on the concept of gender capital, this article elaborates how migrant women utilize motherly disposition as cultural capital for financial stability yet at the same time how such business devastates their selfhood

Border crossing · Capital (architecture · Cultural capital · Domestic work · Ethnography · Human capital · Obstacle · Transnationalism · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy