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Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

2016

Asian middle-class migrant families

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Korean Wild Geese Families : Split Household Strategies And Gender Dynamics In Transnational Families, Se Hwa Lee Jan 2016

Korean Wild Geese Families : Split Household Strategies And Gender Dynamics In Transnational Families, Se Hwa Lee

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Korean wild geese families are one of the rapidly increasing but underexplored middle-class Asian migrant families whose members live apart overseas and occasionally fly back and forth across the ocean to meet one another. Of these families, mothers accompany their children abroad for their children’s education, while fathers remain in South Korea and send remittances to their families.