South Korea’s economic strength vis-à-vis its Asian neighbors, its pursuit of cheap labor, and its restrictions on immigration have created veritable ecosystems of undocumented labor and immigrant spouses at the margins of South Korean society. In Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor and Migration Rights in South Korea, Hae Yeon Choo provides an in-depth look at this phenomenon and the struggles of these laborers—especially Filipina workers—through approximately two years’ worth of fieldwork and interviews with the women, along with the Korean non-governmental organizations (NGOs), churches, labor activists, and other agents that support them. Decentering Citizenship eschews the top-down viewpoint of policymakers, along with that of these laborers’ employers, focusing instead on the economic motivations of these women, the social order that has emerged in the communities near their workplaces, and the everpresent insecurity brought about by their status as “illegals” and outsiders. Though supportive Koreans, as well as Vietnamese migrants are also featured in this monograph, three groups of Filipina women serve as Choo’s main subjects: factory workers, those who have married South Korean men, and the hostesses at clubs catering to American military

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去中心化的公民身份：韩国的性别、劳工和移民权利 作者 Hae Yeon Choo

韩国相对于亚洲邻国的经济实力、对廉价劳动力的追求以及对移民的限制，在韩国社会的边缘创造了名副其实的无证劳动力和移民配偶生态系统。在《去中心化公民权：韩国的性别、劳工和移民权利》一书中，Hae Yeon Choo 通过大约两年的实地考察和对女性的采访，深入研究了这一现象以及这些劳工——尤其是菲律宾劳工——的斗争以及支持他们的韩国非政府组织 (NGO)、教会、劳工活动家和其他代理人。去中心化公民身份避开了政策制定者以及这些劳工雇主的自上而下的观点，而是关注这些女性的经济动机，在他们工作场所附近的社区中出现的社会秩序，以及他们作为“非法”和外来者的身份所带来的无时不在的不安全感。尽管这本专着中也出现了支持韩国人以及越南移民的角色，但 Choo 的主要对象是三组菲律宾女性：工厂工人、与韩国男性结婚的女性，以及招待美军的俱乐部的女招待