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초록

영어

This study looks at the problems and challenges of recent flow of immigration to Korea and their implications for the transitional situation of multicultural society of Korea. The social visibility of “foreigners” has a crucial role in the heightened attention and concern for transnational migrants and “multiculturalism” in Korean society, which has maintained a strong commitment to racial purity and homogeneity. However, South Korea’s migration governance for “multiculturalism” sustains its promotion of ‘migration without settlement.’ Since the 1990s, South Korea has been host country to a growing number of East and South Asian migrant workers, but no official discourse has yet to emerge to incorporate these foreigners as equal members of Korean society nor new citizens of the country. At the same time, the shift from co-ethnic marriage to multi-ethnic and inter-racial ones has also triggered a considerable amount of fear and worries among the local Koreans. South Korea’s long-cherished cultural concept of nationhood based on a homogenous Korean essence is being challenged by the rapid increase in marriage migrants from Southeast Asia. A dilemma therefore arises between the preservation and maintenance of an ethnically homogeneous society on the one hand, and, on the other, the need to ensure continuous economic growth that is causing the hybridization of cultures through the expansion of transnational reproductive migration to maintain and reproduce Korean families. South Korea’s political platform fails to incorporate the ethical stand of multiculturalism, which is based on mutual recognition of different cultures and development of just relationship between the Korean society and migrants.

목차

1. 서론
 2. 동아시아 이주와 한국 다문화사회
 3. 한국에서 다문화주의의 전개
 4. 다문화사회 진전 과정의 쟁점
  1) 개념과 방향성의 혼란
  2) 사회통합ㆍ복지모델로서 다문화
  3) 배제와 차별의 다문화주의
  4) 쌍방향ㆍ장기적 다문화정책
 5. 결론
 참고문헌
 논문초록

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저자

• 최호림 [ Choi, Ho Rim | (사)글로벌발전연구원ReDI 동남아지역자문관, 동국대학교 대학원 국제다문화학과 겸임교수 ]

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발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  동북아 문화연구 [Journal of North-east Asian Cultures]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3692

• 수록기간

  2001~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 910 DDC 950