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25 Critical Criminology 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/ctlcrm25 and id is 1 raw text is: Crit Crim (2017) 25:1-19 CrossMark DOI 10.1007/s10612-016-9339-2 An Exploratory Study of Influences on Vulnerabilities to Family Violence Among Vietnamese Wives Who Marry South Korean Men Suyeon Park';- Merry Morash2 Published online: 9 August 2016 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016 Abstract This article describes an exploratory study of why Vietnamese women who migrate to marry South Korean men are vulnerable to abuse. Inductive qualitative analysis of data from 22 Vietnamese wives who experienced abuse reveals inconsistencies in their expectations and their Korean husbands' and in-laws' expectations about their roles and influence in their Korean families and their provision of assistance to their Vietnamese families. A marriage broker system in both Vietnam and Korea supports these inconsistent expectations. Abuse and control result when Korean husbands and in-laws act to enforce their expectations of the women's role in the family and to prevent their leaving the home. Cross-border marriages have become a common global phenomenon. In one well docu- mented pattern of marriage migration, women from a less developed Southeast Asian country marry men from a more prosperous East Asian country (Cheng and Choo 2015; Jones and Shen 2008; H. K. Kim 2012; Palriwala and Uberoi 2008; W. Yang and Lu 2010). Exemplifying this pattern, since the 1990s South Korea (hereafter, Korea) has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of foreign wives, which grew from 619 in 1990 to 29,665 in 2006, but has since declined to 16,152 in 2014 (Seol et al. 2005; Statistics Korea 2015). Vietnamese women constitute the second largest group of foreign wives in Korea (4743 of 16,152 in 2014, and 29.4 % of the total between 2006 and 2014). The largest group is from China, and many in that group are ethnic Koreans, who are descendants of Korean immigrants; although most are Chinese citizens, they typically speak both Chinese and Korean and are familiar with Korean culture and cooking (S. J. Kim 2003). In contrast, most Vietnamese women who marry Korean men lack information about Korean culture and cuisine and have little or no Korean language competence; as a result, many of them ® Suyeon Park spark018@plattsburgh.edu Merry Morash morashm@msu.edu Department of Criminal Justice, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY 12901, USA 2 School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Springer

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