중국 사회주의 노동자ㆍ농민, 이주가사노동자 되다: 프랑스, 남한, 중국 대도시의 조선족 여성 연구

This paper raises the issue of the migrant society's calling for migrant domestic labor, which is not considered decent work by being perceived as trivial job and reviews it from the perspective of migrants. To this end, through the study of the professional life of middle-aged Chaoxianzu domestic workers in large cities in France, South Korea and China, the paper examines their collective labor consciousness and analyzes the meaning of their choice and performance of migrant-domestic labor. As a result of the study, their professional lives changed according to the mode of China’s production: small farmers, collective workers and farmers, farmers and service workers under the family production system and migration workers. The main characteristics of their labor were that despite the differences in the mode of production, they performed productive and reproductive labor in the complex and long working hours required for women under the ‘family economic strategy’(TillyㆍScott, 2002) just like Western European women in the pre-industrialization and industrialization period. On the other hand, they acquired irreversible professional and economic power by actively participating in the production activities of the socialist system and formed a professional habitus is represented by the collective memory as a female labor subjects in the public domain. In the light of the professional habitus, for Chaoxianzu women, migrant domestic labor was a ‘proper’ option for their immigrant labor conditions that sustained their professional and economic power as wage earners. They recognized painful class experience from the decline in the status of the working class in immigrant society and from what is symbolized as a ‘slave’. However, they did not internalize the position of ‘lower-class workers’, which is formalized to migrant workers through externalization and structuralization of the causes of the pain and identification as workers.