Anglophone Expatriate Mothers Raising Biracial Children in Korea: A Pastoral Care Model

By Karen Louise Kim

With a relatively recent rapid increase in international marriages, Korea provides a fascinating case study in cross-cultural pastoral care at a time of increasing global movement and migration. This book presents a pastoral care model based on interviews with a relatively under-researched demographic of international women marriage migrants. The pastoral care model was developed by listening to the many experiences of women from Western countries who are raising their biracial children in Korea, a country which is still wrestling with the concept of multiculturalism. At a time when many pastors will find themselves with expatriates, repatriates, or international marriages in their congregation, this book presents a model for approaching pastoral care, particularly if such women are mothers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Release date: Dec 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9781532689857

Karen Louise Kim

Karen Kim is a research fellow at the Centre for Asian Christianity at the Brisbane School of Theology. She completed her studies at Yonsei University in Korea while raising her Korean-Australian son with her Korean husband. She also spent five years as an associate and youth pastor in the English Ministry of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul.

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