This study aims to understand how the differences between migrant women in educating
their children according to their academic career manifest their parent-children relationships
through time and to discuss its socio-cultural meaning in terms of the relation between migrant
women's habitus and their acculturation strategies. A 6-year longitudinal case study was
conducted with 9 migrant women. As its result, it is revealed that migrant women with a low
academic career assumed the assimilative attitude toward the mainstream society due to their
'self-negating' habitus, only to fail in practicing for and resulting in assimilation. On the other
hand, it is revealed that migrant women with higher academic career have difficulties in
acquiring information and struggling for the best educative support in terms of their criteria
within an unfamiliar education environment. Their bilingual education, systematic support for
schooling, and transnational career might result in their children's assimilation to the mainstream
society regardless of their attitude toward it. These unexpected possibilities of their children's
adjusting to the mainstream society might be interpreted to be embedded within the particular
context of South Korean society, which has been transformed drastically to the global-oriented
one within the last two decades.