The patterns of 'care migrantisation' in South Korea

Bibliographic Data

ID3626657
AuthorsG Kim (0000-0002-0992-8556, Dong-A University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume44
Issue13
Pages2286-2302
Publication date2018-10-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2017.1388158
OpenAlexW2766804478
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited59

Over the past couple of decades, researchers have documented a phenomenon called ‘migrantisation of care’, which is patterned by the national regimes of care and migration. By applying the ideas of social reproduction and care–migration intersections to the South Korean case, this paper investigates the interplay of care and migration policies through which migrants get involved for various care roles in different care settings. In the matrix of migration (regime) and care (regime) emerge two intersecting fields in South Korea: co-ethnic labour migrants in paid care work and marriage migrants in unpaid care work. The paper has found a growing demand for migrant care labour to address the care crisis in Korea, but the degree to which care work is migrantised varies significantly between childcare and eldercare as well as between home-based care and institution-based care. The paper not only geographically extends the care–migration intersection frame to an East Asian welfare state but widens its theoretical application to an under-explored pattern of care migrantisation, notably unpaid care provision by family migrants

Care work · Child care · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Institution · Phenomenon · Political science · Sociology · Welfare state · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Nursing · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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