한부모 이주여성의 이혼 후 적응과 새로운 파트너십형성에 대한 연구

The purpose of this study was to examine post-divorce adjustment and new partnership of immigrant single motherafter divorce. 4 immigrant single mothers from Vietnam were interviewed and data were analyzed by qualitative method. The results were as follows. First, immigrant single mothers coped with stress after divorce through sending theirchildren to Vietnam, working and remittance. Second, they began dating a new man in the work place who wereof various nationalities, such as Korean, Vietnamese, Uzbekistan and developed partnership to remarry, cohabit ordate with deep intimacy. Third, single immigrant mothers in various partnership like remarriage, cohabitation or datingwere satisfied with intimate and loving relationships and support from both sides parents and the birth of new child. However, participants were anxious about the new partner's favoritism toward the biological child and discriminationagainst the new partner with an unfamiliar cultural background, for example, being from a like a Muslim country. The results suggested immigrant women after divorce showed various partnership on a path towards marriage andthat we should pay attention to the aspects of change in multicultural families after divorce.