[KS] [Public lecture series] "Caring with emotion: Korean nurses in Germany" (Prof. Yonson Ahn) on the 16th of January 2023 at 6pm (CET)

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Mon Jan 9 03:55:42 EST 2023


  Dear colleagues, 
  Please see below for details on the 4th session of the public  
lecture series “Female Skilled Labor Migration Across the Globe.”
   

  Public Lecture: 
"CARING WITH EMOTION: KOREAN NURSES IN GERMANY" (PROF. YONSON AHN,  
GOETHE UNIVERSITY FRANKFURT)
JANUARY 16, MONDAY, 6PM (CET), 2023 | ZOOM

REGISTRATION LINK: HTTPS://FORMS.GLE/HQ6I1DU8MRAUFRJE8

ABSTRACT 
In line with the increasing significance of the role of transnational  
migration in healthcare provision – especially in the West – slightly  
over 11,000 nurses and nurse assistants from South Korea moved as  
“guest workers” (Gastarbeiter) to the former West Germany mainly  
between the 1960s and the 1970s. This study explores the role of  
emotions in the professional practice of nursing care during the  
interactions between the migrant nurses and the German local patients.  
Particular attention is paid to gendered and racialized aspects of the  
emotional labor carried out by the Korean migrant healthcare workers  
based on their experiences at work. The way in which the stereotypical  
image of Asian/Korean femininity constructed in the host society has  
been shaped into care work will be examined. Another focus is the way  
in which the Korean female healthcare practitioners manage their  
emotions and act as compassionate nurses in care delivery. They  
perform or manage their emotions to demonstrate a sense of compassion  
and empathy in nursing practices in the host country, Germany. In the  
process of performing their duty of care and managing their emotions  
over the long-term, the Korean healthcare workers also have to  
negotiate between providing compassionate care and coping with  
“compassion fatigue” in healthcare settings by performing racialized  
gender in a recurring manner. Their emotional labor is thereby  
undertaken in intersection with gender, and race/ethnicity; factors  
which are entangled and mutually reinforced in the performativity of  
gender and race/ethnicity within the context of nursing care by the  
“guest workers”.
 
BIO
Yonson Ahn is Professor, Chair of Korean Studies and Deputy Executive  
Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of East Asian Studies (IZO)  
at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. She received her PhD  
degree in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Warwick in  
2000. Gender and migration, with a focus on transnational nurse  
migration and transnational marriage migrants is her major research  
interest, along with the Korean diaspora and sexual violence  
associated with armed conflict. Her work has been published in a range  
of journals including Korean Studies and European Journal of Women's  
Studies. Her recent monograph is entitled Whose Comfort : Body,  
Sexuality and Identities of Korean ‘Comfort Women’ and Japanese  
Soldiers during WWII, London & Singapore: World Scientific Publishing,  
2020. In addition, she has edited two volumes entitled Transnational  
Mobility in and out of Korea, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020 and Korea  
and the Global Society: Engagement, Reciprocity, and Tension to be  
published by Routledge in 2022.

For further questions, feel free to contact the conveners via the  
following email: quamafa at gmail.com.
  Conveners
   
  Dr. Ruth Achenbach (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  Dr. Joohyun Justine Park (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  Dr. Helena Hof (Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and  
Ethnic Diversity)
  Dr. Aimi Muranaka (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  Dr. Megha Wadhwa (Free University of Berlin)
   
  This public lecture series is part of the project ‘Qualification and  
Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia’ funded by  
the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF),  
organized at the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies  
(IZO), Goethe University Frankfurt. 
   
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