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Jan 16 2023
18:00

online lecture

Caring with emotion: Korean nurses in Germany

Prof. Dr. Yonson Ahn || Goethe University Frankfurt || 'Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia' || BMBF || IZO
January 16 (Monday) 6pm, 2023 | virtual
Abstract 
In line with the increasing significance of the role of transnational migration in healthcare provision – especially in the West – slightly over 11,000 nurses and nurse assistants from South Korea moved as “guest workers" (Gastarbeiter) to the former West Germany mainly between the 1960s and the 1970s. This study explores the role of emotions in the professional practice of nursing care during the interactions between the migrant nurses and the German local patients. Particular attention is paid to gendered and racialized aspects of the emotional labor carried out by the Korean migrant healthcare workers based on their experiences at work. The way in which the stereotypical image of Asian/Korean femininity constructed in the host society has been shaped into care work will be examined. Another focus is the way in which the Korean female healthcare practitioners manage their emotions and act as compassionate nurses in care delivery. They perform or manage their emotions to demonstrate a sense of compassion and empathy in nursing practices in the host country, Germany. In the process of performing their duty of care and managing their emotions over the long-term, the Korean healthcare workers also have to negotiate between providing compassionate care and coping with “compassion fatigue" in healthcare settings by performing racialized gender in a recurring manner. Their emotional labor is thereby undertaken in intersection with gender, and race/ethnicity; factors which are entangled and mutually reinforced in the performativity of gender and race/ethnicity within the context of nursing care by the “guest workers".

 

Bio
Yonson Ahn is Professor, Chair of Korean Studies and Deputy Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of East Asian Studies (IZO) at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. She received her PhD degree in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Warwick in 2000. Gender and migration, with a focus on transnational nurse migration and transnational marriage migrants is her major research interest, along with the Korean diaspora and sexual violence associated with armed conflict. Her work has been published in a range of journals including Korean Studies and European Journal of Women's Studies. Her recent monograph is entitled Whose Comfort : Body, Sexuality and Identities of Korean 'Comfort Women' and Japanese Soldiers during WWII, London & Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2020. In addition, she has edited two volumes entitled Transnational Mobility in and out of Korea, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020 and Korea and the Global Society: Engagement, Reciprocity, and Tension to be published by Routledge in 2022.
 
Meeting-ID: 621 1402 3005
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For further questions, feel free to contact the conveners via the following email: quamafa@gmail.com.

Conveners
 
Dr. Ruth Achenbach (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Dr. Joohyun Justine Park (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Dr. Helena Hof (Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)
Dr. Aimi Muranaka (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Dr. Megha Wadhwa (Free University of Berlin)
 
This public lecture series is part of the project 'Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia' funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), organized at the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO), Goethe University Frankfurt. 
 

 

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Präsenzveranstaltung, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 18 Uhr
Live-Seminar, at Goethe University Frankfurt, 6 p.m.

 

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