중장년 조선족 여성 이주노동자의 몸 아픔경험에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study started from the awareness of problems that the illness ofmiddle-aged Joseonjok(Korean-Chinese) migrant women is invisible and tend tobe concealed. They are suffering from mental shrinking caused by vulnerablelegal position, muscular skeletal diseases and chronic disease caused by poorworking conditions, furthermore suffering from industrial accident. They don’tmore than speak it closely connected with migrant work, but situated it in thelifecourse context in the past. Most of them started work in restaurant, moteletc like service business, but they work in domestic work and care work inkorea at last. These works didn’t be applied to the Labor Standards Act, sothey were excluded from occupational health and safety insurance and healthinsurance system. Also when the serious diseases were discovered, they cameback to China, woman migrant worker’s illness did not to be exposed in Korea. they superficially was seen that ‘spontaneously’ overwork themselves tobe making money, so their illness is regarded as personal matter. This paper tryto analyze the implication of illness reality and ‘inconsistent’ story on illness,from personal subject side and structural side. So this study based on viewpointof gender to show migrant workers subject life story and meaningness onillness itself, reveal how they ‘spontaneously’ overwork themselves, how delayillness. The migrant workers regard migrant work as casual labor to makemoney, they work for wage labor in ‘maximization’, but they feel economicaland cultural empowering and fulfill it with the body of customized care, in thelong labor structure. At the same time, they delay space time for caring forthemselves, sometimes even connected with serious disease or death. This studyemphasize neoliberalism reign that these process do not simply lie in overworkcaused by personal greed, but lie in migrant･compatriot policy and marketstructure to be gendered of Korea, the process of migrant work to be embodiedin life style, everyday life conditions to be deleted for reproducting workforce,under taking the responsibility on oneself in the name of ‘spontaneous labour’.