The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women

ABSTRACT

This study explored leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women. Qualitative interviews with 20 Vietnamese marriage migrant women in South Korea were conducted. At the individual level, language skills, financial resources, time, personal leisure orientation and preference, and capacity for individual mobility were identified as the constraints and facilitators of leisure for the marriage migrant women. At the interpersonal level, family served as both the leisure constraint and facilitator of this group. At the context and system level, the Multicultural Family Support Centre was highlighted as a facilitator, while transportation acted as both a facilitator and constraint of the leisure of migrant women. This study sheds light on the impacts of a diverse amalgam of facilitators and constraints of leisure participation among marriage migrant women. Implications for leisure planners, human resources managers of organisations, and the government are offered.

KEYWORDS:

• Leisure participation
• constraints
• facilitators
• marriage migrant women
• Vietnamese
• South korea

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers who provided valuable comments on the earlier version of this manuscript. We also would like to thank Ms. Haeri Jang for her help with conducting interviews. This research was partially funded by Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM).

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Yim King Penny Wan

Yim King Penny Wan is Visiting Assistant Professor at Macao Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao SAR, China. Her main research interests include governance and tourism, casino gaming management, integrated resort management, and hospitality service management (E-mail: [email protected]).

Suh-hee Choi

Suh-hee Choi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. Her main research interests include tourism mobilities, public diplomacy, migrants’ leisure, serious leisure, cultural tourism, and tourist experience (E-mail: [email protected]).