Interview with Emigrant Workers to the Middle East and Their Wives, 1986-1987
https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-B3-1987-0001-V1.0
Principal Investigator(s)
Seok, Hyunho / Department of Sociology, Sungkyunkwan University
Producer(s)
Abstract
This data was collected from workers who have returned from working in the Middle East and their wives to examine the effects of working in the Middle East on household living standards as well as the elements of failure and success in overseas employment. The content of interview included life history that delineate the socio-demographic background of the interviewee, reason for working in the Middle East, life, work and leisure while in the Middle East, reemployment status and family relations after returning, and whether financial goals were attained. In case wives, they were questioned about methods of managing the money remitted while husband was in the Middle East and side jobs to examine how financial lives were maintained, and how family relations have changed following husband’s employment in the Middle East.
Interviews were carried out among 50 households but data from only 38 of those currently remain. This data is composed of 37 interview transcripts excluding one case out of the total 38 which was of poor recording quality.
Keywords
employment in the middle east work abroad overseas employment working abroad migrant laborer migrant worker reemployment household income family relations
Subjects
Citation
- ID Number
- B3-1987-0001
- Title(KOR)
- 중동 취업자 가족 인터뷰 조사, 1986-1987
- Title
- Interview with Emigrant Workers to the Middle East and Their Wives, 1986-1987
- Project Title(KOR)
- Effect of Labor Migration on Households
- Principal Investigator(s)
- Seok, Hyunho / Department of Sociology, Sungkyunkwan University
- Co-Investigator(s)
- Yang, Jong-hoe / Department of Sociology, Sungkyunkwan University
- Producer(s)
- United Nations University
- Copyright
- Seok, Hyunho
- Fundings
- United Nations University
- Depositor(s)
- Seok, Hyunho / Department of Sociology, Sungkyunkwan University
- Date of Deposit
- 2008-04-24
- Distributor(s)
- Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA)
- Date of Version
- 2008-09-18
- Date of Distribution
- 2008-09-18
- Citation
- Seok, Hyunho. Interview with Emigrant Workers to the Middle East and Their Wives, 1986-1987 [Dataset]. United Nations University [Producers]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2008-09-18, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-B3-1987-0001-V1.0.
Methodology
- Date of Collection
- 1986-12-28 ~ 1987-03-11
- Countries
- Korea
- Unit of Analysis
- individual
- Universe
- emigrant workers to the Middle East and their wives
- Data Type
- Interview/narrtive
- Mode of Data Collection
- in-depth interview
Dataset Contents & Version
- Extent of Collection
- Transcript(pdf) ; Interview Summary(pdf)
- Language
- Transcript-Korean ; Interview Summary-Korean
- Version
- V1.0
- Date of Version
- 2008-09-18
- Date of Distribution
- 2008-09-18
Access
- Availability Status
- Member Access
- Notes
- Survey on Migration of Asian Workers to the Middle East」(A1-1984-0001) and「Records on Workshop for the Study on Emigrant Workers to the Middle East, 1987」(B1-1987-0001) are available at KOSSDA.
| File Type | File Name | File Description | File Format | File Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Related Documents-Other | interviewlist.pdf | 인터뷰 리스트 | 1.24 MB | Download |
Documents
Measured since the release date of the current version data.
If the data were released before May 11, 2017, it was measured since May 11, 2017.
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