[KS] 2/24 Colloquium at UC Berkeley "Accidental Cosmopolitanization"

[Center for Korean Studies]

The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley

 

Proudly Presents

 

Accidental Cosmopolitanization: Citizenship Contradictions of Rural Marriage
Immigration in South Korea

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | February 24 | 4 p.m. |
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East
Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

 

Speaker: Chang Kyung-Sup, Professor of Sociology, Seoul National University

 

As a late modern irony in South Korea, rural villages have become a platform
for cosmopolitanization in terms of rapidly increasing marriages between
Korean bachelors and foreign brides from various Asian countries. These
marriage immigrants are seen as the first non-Korean ethnic groups to become
integrated and accepted socially by Koreans. On official, social, and
personal levels, there are intense negotiations and inventive suggestions
concerning the status of foreign brides as Korean citizens, which will be
discussed along with the contradictions that can structurally deny or
threaten their genuine sociocultural and political membership in Korean
society.

 

 

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

 

 

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