The experiences of child-rearing by Filipino Immigrant women married to Korean men and Korean women married to Korean men: A focus on the experiences of rural women
AUTHOR : 박은민, 김성수, 박순희
INFORMATION : page. 147~167 / 2011 Vol.18 No.4
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to better understand the perceptions of child-rearing as experienced by Filipino women married to Korean men and Korean women married to Korean men living in a small local city. For the purposes of this study, 30 participants, including 15 married Filipino women and 15 married Korean women were selected and were then interviewed in-depth. The research participants all had children. Data were collected by means of in-depth interview and analyzed based on Colaizzi's phenomenological method. The final 4 categories, 7 clusters of themes, were the child-rearing experiences of Filipino married women, the final 4 categories, 8 clusters of themes were based on the child-rearing experiences of Korean married women. The final results revealed 4 categories of care experiences for the Filipino married women and Korean married women, consisting of ‘mother’, ‘children’, ‘husband’, ‘life’.
Both the similarities and the differences regarding the respective child-rearing experiences of Filipino married women and Korean married women were discussed, as were suggestions for relevant support plans and systems for such women.