This inquiry examines linguistic and ethnic marginalization faced by Southeast Asian marriage-migrant women in a rural Korean city and the ways in which they oppose and negotiate the identities imposed on them by others. The findings display that the women were marginalized and had restricted meaningful contact and intercultural communication with Koreans in diverse interethnic contexts. They were stigmatized for their linguistic and cultural backgrounds; the nature of their marriage/migration; and their class, gender, and race. The three-generation households in which they lived were sites of oppression where they were coerced to strictly adhere to traditional Korean linguistic and cultural norms. In the workplace, they were positioned as incapable second-language (L2) speakers on account of their regional dialects and lack of sociolinguistic competence. Additionally, they experienced racial discrimination in the larger community, based on their language and ethnicity. Despite various types of marginalization, the participants resisted their families’ impositions and stereotypes from mainstream society. They sought to gain legitimacy through increasing their linguistic capital valued in professional settings. The inquiry proposes that narratives can be a powerful means to disclose processes of marginalization and the influence of marginalization on L2 learning and identity.