AJWS ISSN 1225-9276 33 Ⓒ 2013 Asian Center for Women’s Studies http://acws.ewha.ac.kr Weaving Women’s Agency into Representations of Marriage Migrants: Narrative Strategies with Reflective Practice Minjeong KIM Abstract In the growing feminist inquiry regarding international marriage mi- gration from Southeast Asia to the East Asian countries, the ethnic hierarchy between migrant subjects and feminist authors has pre- sented a methodological challenge relating to the politics of know- ledge. Drawing on the postcolonial critique of feminist representations of Third World women and the idea of reflective practice in ethno- graphic representation, this paper explores narrative strategies to over- come the victim-agent dichotomy when telling the stories of “bound” migrant wives. Following a review of the literature regarding the a- gency question in feminist and marriage migration discourses , I out- line strategies involving terminology , methodology , and reflective prac- tice in order to circumvent the trap of cultural colonization or dis- cursive domination. Finally, I present nuanced portrayals of two Fili- pina marriage migrants and analyze their narratives. Keywords International marriage migration; Filipina migrants; agency; ethno- graphic representation; South Korea; East Asia AJWS, Vol. 19 No. 3, 2013, pp. 7-41.