Mobility of Chinese and Korean Marriage Migrants in Japan Rural Areas

In this research report, we are going to look at mobility of South Korean and Chinese female marriage migrants in Japan from the following perspectives:

 1) suspicion raised among people in the community by marriage migrants’ temporarily returning to their hometown,

 2)proportional growth of monolingual in their offspring generation. 

  In rural areas, marriage migrants are still seen as “escaping brides”, and are under significant influence of this old paternalistic belief that “Once married into a family, she belongs to it”. This idea has taken marriage migrants’ mobility negatively, and has worked as a mechanism which restricts it.  This report will present our perceptions toward female marriage migrants’ mobility through cases in Tohoku and Tokai districts.