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DOI: 10.1177/0891243203257200 Immigration and MotheringCase Studies from Two Generations of Korean Immigrant WomenVassar Collegesemoon{at}vassar.edu. Despite the increase of middle-class people among Asian immigrants to the United States over the past three decades,research has paid little attention to these women. Focusing on women’s paid employment, prior research also tends to overlook the significance of mothering to the analysis of gender relations in immigrant families. By bringing together the literatures on gender and immigration and on mothering in families of color,this article examines how immigration and gender ideology,mediated by a family’s economic situation and the employment prospects for educated women of color,shape the organization of mothering and how each pattern of mothering affects the power dynamics underlying the gender division of labor in immigrant families. Three distinct arrangements of mothering emerge from in-depth interviews with middle-class Korean immigrant women collected from suburbs in New York State: (1) shared mothering based on transnational,transgenerational,and nuclear family networks; (2) isolated and privatized mothering; and (3) mothering after retreat from full-time employment.
Key Words: immigration • middle clas • mothering • gender division of labor in families • women’s paid employment
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