Spatial Capability for Understanding Gendered Mobility for Korean Christian Immigrant Women in Los Angeles

This paper suggests a new concept, 'spatial capability', for understanding how women's freedom of mobility is systematically constrained. Based on the capability approach, it demonstrates that women's adaptive daily culture causes individual agents voluntarily to limit their mobi...

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Published inUrban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) Vol. 48; no. 11; pp. 2355 - 2373
Main Author Shin, HaeRan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2011
Longman Group
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
adaptability
Aliens
Asian Americans
Asian Cultural Groups
Automobiles
Bgi / Prodig
Christianity
Christians
Culture
Decisions
Females
Foreigners
Freedom
Gender
Gender roles
Geography
Human geography
Human migration
Immigrants
International migration
Korean culture
Koreans
Liberty
Limitations
Los Angeles California
Migration
Mobility
Noncitizens
Population geography and social geography
Social geography
Travel
United States
Upward mobility
Women
Working women
United States of America
Los Angeles
California
Los Angeles California
United States > US
USA, California, Los Angeles
Neighbourhood
Mobility
Religion
Cultural studies
Urban area
Gender
Woman
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Summary:This paper suggests a new concept, 'spatial capability', for understanding how women's freedom of mobility is systematically constrained. Based on the capability approach, it demonstrates that women's adaptive daily culture causes individual agents voluntarily to limit their mobility. Through the orally expressed experiences of 42 married Korean immigrant women in Los Angeles, this research effectively argues how the marginalisation of the subjects in the migration decision, along with their limited daily mobility, constitutes their spatial capability. It also shows that their daily culture, including their gender roles and their Christianity, enhances their constraints by adapting the limits and ultimately becomes the limitation itself. Gendered mobility should be approached in terms of potential freedom and accompanied by a consideration of the dialectic relationship that exists between the social constraints and the individual agents.
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ISSN:0042-0980
1360-063X
DOI:10.1177/0042098010388955