Patriarchy and Empowerment:The Social Network Interactions of a Vietnamese Immigrant Woman

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Title:	Patriarchy and Empowerment:The Social Network Interactions of a Vietnamese Immigrant Woman
Authors:	Kuo, Shu-Feng
Contributors:	心理學系
Keywords:	patriarchy;empowerment;immigrant woman;social network;Vietnamese
Date:	2015
Issue Date:	2015-09-24 08:05:00 (UTC+0)
Publisher:	亞洲大學
Abstract:	This study employs the self-narrative of a Vietnamese immigrant woman (interviewee), who participated in a Chinese reading course and worked in Taiwan , and her life descriptions in Taiwan stating by her Taiwanese family and friend, to triangulate how she began to reveal her personal capability, enhanced her right to speak up in her family and unfolded her social network when she faced strange and unfriendly environment. This study uses ‘patriarchy’ and ‘empowerment’ as the axial concepts and conducts epiphany analysis to describe how this interviewee changed her beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. Based on feminism perspective, this study makes use of narrative to interpret the power structure in her social life, such as racial discrimination, status or gender unequal treatment. By means of this interviewee’s life experience narration in different situations and different female role, this study tries to understand how this interviewee adapted her mental adaptation process when she faced the change of her family system; how the interviewee subsisted on the ‘patriarchy’ to illustrate the importance of the ‘empowerment’; how the ‘patriarchy’ in real life pounced on this empowered respondent again after being beaten off. The research results reveal that the interviewee manifested her subjectivity and enhanced her self-confidence and her status in her family network during the process of empowerment. However, owing to her personality characteristics describing by herself, her social network did not develop and extend. Finally, this study proposes some future research suggestions and suggests that the counseling professionals should be aware of the importance of internal values of main stream and sexual framework when learning process and interviewing with clients. Besides, counselors should let the client be aware of the superior capability of oneself when interviewing with clients. In addition to cultural difference, counselors should also pay attention to the issues of the intimacy and power struggles in personal interactions when consulting with the family and the couples. Especially, for cross-culture couples, counselors should collect information about how and why that get into marriage, which may position then in different power status.
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