“There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.” — Noam Chomsky The analysis on structural factors hindering inclusive access to effective mental health services for first generation Korean-Canadian immigrant mothers reveals a) the role of transnational family structure in increasing gendered burden and b) the issue of institutionalized…

My mother immigrated to Vancouver with her two daughters in 2009. We were a typical kirogi gajok (“wild geese” family), a cultural term that depicts the relatively recent transnational family structure in which the father works in Korea while the mother emigrates with her children. Particularly among first generation Korean…