지구화, 국민국가 그리고 여성의 섹슈얼리티

Globalization, Nation-State and Women's Sexualities

It has been the most conspicuous scene of golobalization in the end of 20th century that capitals, commodities and people move rapidly and widely beyond nation-states. In addition, women's migration is also one of the most characteristic aspects of it. Women have always migrated actively cross countries to pursue their own interests including economic and social things. However, women's migration has never been dealt with seriously because women were considered to migrate as spouses or members of families. Gender has never been seriously taken as the critical mechanism by which migration itself is differently organized and migrants are differently arranged even before and after migration was done. This article explores the notion of gender as a new way of constructing inequality contesting with race, nationality, age in the context of globalization. Especially this article deals with how the globalization of capital and migration affects the market demands of Korean prostitutes and transforms women's sexualities into differentiated and hierarchized commodities in Korean sex industries appropriating their race, nationality, age etc. This article describes several episodes about women's sexualities in globalization; women's sexualities are still regarded as the allegory of national morality; political contestation of citizenship between dollar-earning Korean prostitutes and dollar-sending out foreign prostitutes in Korean military bases; commercialized international marriage trading nationalities and sexualities; hierarchy of nation-states' human rights depending on national policy of women's trafficking. This article tries to show how migration of foreign women's sexualities in globalization affects, destabilizes and challenges the integral identity of the national and the cultural and political legitimacy of the local. They also question how and what kind of political locale can be made to secure basic rights for the migrated women in globalization. This article does not suggest the solution of contradictory aspects of different dimensions of globalization that the nation state confronts including economic, political, social and cultural domains. However this article at least shows how nation state is re-framing women's identity constructing the political meaning of women's sexualities in globalizing context.