• 대한지리학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.141-157
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• 2000

This study aims to define the mechanism of the formation of a regional segregated area of Korean immigrants to Japan. And furthermore to examine the transformations of the ethnic identity with the change of the times and generations. Kotobuki is korean community formed in Yoseba. Yoseba is the space served as a catchment place of day laborers for jobs regarded as relatively unsdilled. such places generally have a large number of cheap lodging houses(doyagai) for them. With the change of the times, this area has become a place where the labor workers flocked into. koreans also came in with them. kotobuki was formed in Yoseba is a proof that socio-economic conditions influenced ethnic community. And the ehinc solodarity in the community got stronger in proportion to the solidarity tends to change and differs in degree accoding to the different generations of and different immigrant periods of the Koreans.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.15-29
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to explore ethnic socialization enacted by Japanese marriage migrant women currently raising 7- to 18-year-old children in Korea. To accomplish this goal, we examined the following research questions: (1) What is the level of ethnic socialization enacted by Japanese marriage migrant mothers? (2) Does the level of ethnic socialization vary by demographic and ethnocultural factors? (3) To what extent do demographic and ethnocultural factors influence the enactment of ethnic socialization by Japanese marriage migrant mothers? The sample consisted of 243 Japanese marriage migrant women currently raising 7- to 18-year-old children in Korea. For data analysis, T-test, correlation, ANOVA, and hierarchical regression analyses were used. Also, we performed separate analyses for two subtypes of ethnic socialization in particular, namely cultural socialization and preparation for bias. Ethnocultural factors examined in this study were the level of discrimination experience, Japanese ethnic identity, and husbands' ethnic orientation in childrearing. The main results of this study were as follows. First, results showed that Japanese marriage migrant women enacted moderate levels of cultural socialization and preparation for bias. Second, Japanese marriage migrant women's cultural socialization and preparation for bias were both positively related to the levels of women's discrimination experience and Japanese ethnic identity. Also, the younger the age of the firstborn child, the more preparation for bias these women performed. In addition, women whose Korean husbands wanted to raise their children more biculturally performed more cultural socialization compared to those with Korean husbands who wanted to raise their children as Korean. Third, hierarchical regression analyses revealed that women's discrimination experience and ethnic identity positively predicted both types of ethnic socialization. Also, Korean husband's bicultural orientation towards childrearing predicted a higher level of cultural socialization by Japanese marriage migrant women. Results of this study provide basic information about ethnic socialization among multicultural families in Korea, which can be useful for promoting positive self-identity among multicultural children. Furthermore, the results suggest that husbands' support and cooperation in ethnic socialization can be crucial for marriage migrant women to socialize their children utilizing their cultural and experiential resources.

• 동남아시아연구
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.133-170
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• 2012

This thesis aims to analyze the political, social, and cultural activities of the Acehnese ethnic group living in Jakarta, Indonesia. Based on analysis, this thesis examines how their ethnicity and national identity have been formed and expressed. For this purpose, this study deals with Taman Iskandar Muda (hereinafter referred to as TIM), a group of Acehnese transmigrants living in Jakarta. The immigration of the Acehnese to Jakarta started in the 1950s and the number of Acehnese people living in Jakarta persently amounts to 100,000. TIM, which was organized by the first generational of immigrants, functions to group Acehnese immigrants of various generations and class. Forum Keprihatinan Untuk Aceh(hereinafter referred to as Forka), an organization designed to solve the political problems of TIM, undertook various activities to maintain the peace of Aceh as the representative of TIM. Through those activities, TIM and Forka were able to confirm the feeling of homogeneity among the Acehnese who were living in their hometown and also strengthen their identity within the organizations. However, the fact that TIM and Forka put their focus on humanitarian activities paradoxically shows the political limitations that they sustain. TIM and Forka take care not to make their humanitarian activities seem as if they intend to openly strengthen their Acehnese identity and deny their Indonesian one. These political characteristics of Forka's identity are commonly found in groups that practice long-distance nationalism, as transmigrants in diaspora circumstances do. In the organization of TIM, there exists the menasah, which is a space where discussions of the ethnicity and the nation are practiced. As it is the space for local exchange, menasah reveals the identity of TIM through educational/social activities and public services. Menasah functions as the public arena where people practice ethnic identity on the basis of national integration. As a minority ethnic group living in Jakarta and its neighborhood, they are accustomed to double and selective political activities, social activities, and cultural practices. In order to adapt themselves to the double circumstance that they are faced with, they should live extemporaneously, and this life may be the fate that minority ethnic and transmigrants should endure.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.145-165
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• 1994

This paper analyzes how Cultural identity described by dress in Pearl S. Buck's novel. The result shows that dress described Ethnic identity, Other cultural identity, Dual cultural identity.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.95-107
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• 2007

The present study examined generational differences in ethnicity maintenance among Korean-Chinese to understand the impact of recent social change on a Korean-Chinese ethnic community in China. A total of 1355 Korean-Chinese (557 parents and 798 children), who live in Shenyang, China, participated in this study. The subjects were asked about their language use during daily conversations and cultural activities. They were also asked about their ethnic identity and perceptions of social distance from Chinese people. The results reveal that the Korean-Chinese parent generation is more likely to maintain its ethnic language, while the child generation is more likely to maintain its ethnic culture. Second, more parents than children considered themselves as 'Korean-Chinese' rather than 'Chinese'. Third, members of the child generation show less social distance from Chinese people than do the parent generation. These results show a strong tendency towards ethnicity maintenance among Korean Chinese as well as recent changes in the community. This study argues for the importance of school education and school environment in maintaining the ethnic language and culture of Korean-Chinese children.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제48권
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• pp.253-287
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• 2017

이 글의 목적은 본 연구자가 에티오피아 아셀라 타운에서의 현지조사를 통해 수집한 자료를 토대로, 종족 현상을 다층적 맥락에서 살펴보는 데 있다. 생태학적 조건, 양대 종족의 숫자상 균형, 빈번한 종족 외혼 및 '젖 먹이기'라는 사회문화적 관행의 영향 등으로 인해, 이 타운에서는 집단적 수준의 종족 갈등이 거의 발생하지 않았다. 하지만 이러한 관행의 긍정적인 영향에도 불구하고, 아셀라에서는 지배 종족에 의한 차별과 위협이 지속적으로 발생해 온 것으로 파악되었다. 대개의 제보자는 종족 외혼이 종족 집단 및 공동체 구성원의 유대를 강화하고, 상이한 종족 문화를 습득하고, 사람들 간의 관용 정신을 배양하고, 혼종적(다중적) 종족 정체성을 가진 우수한 2세를 생산하는 데 기여한다고 여기고 있었다. 그러나 일부 제보자는 종족 외혼이 그 당사자의 이기적인 선택에 불과할 뿐만 아니라 종족 정체성을 손상시키므로, 결코 바람직한 일이 아니라는 입장을 견지했다. 상당수의 제보자는 현재 진행 중인 오로모화가 지극히 당연한 현상이라 여기고 있는 반면, 일부 제보자는 오로모화를 강제성, 피상성 및 생존 전략의 맥락에서 파악될 필요가 있다고 역설했다.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.919-932
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• 2010

This investigation examined the association between demographic variables, acculturation and acculturative stress. Participants in the study were 360 Pilipino, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese-Korean and Japanese woman who had married internationally and were living in Jeonbuk-Do. Hierarchical regression analyses determined that among the independent variables examined, age, Korean language ability, marital satisfaction, and ethnic identity had significant predictive effects on the levels of acculturative stress experienced. Young women who had lower Korean language proficiency, lower marital satisfaction, and higher ethnic identity showed more higher level of acculturative stress. Implications of this research were discussed with particular attention given to possible support programs for women in international marriages.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.141-168
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• 2011

한·중·일 대학생의 국민정체성과 다문화태도의 관계를 탐구하였다. 이를 위해 부산대학교 사회과학연구소가 조사한 "한·중·일 대학생의 다문화태도" 자료를 사용하였으며, 일원배치분산분석(ANOVA), Scheffe 사후검정, 구조방정식 모델링, 다집단분석을 이용하였다. 연구결과, 첫째, 중국 대학생은 혈통적 정체성과 시민적 정체성 모두 비교 국가 대학생보다 높은 것으로 나타났다. 한국 대학생은 혈통적 정체성이, 일본 대학생은 시민적 정체성이 비교 국가 대학생보다 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 다문화태도의 경우 한국 대학생들은 일자리, 경제 기여 등에서, 중국 대학생들은 사회문제, 외국 집단 거주 등에서, 일본 대학생들은 혈통훼손, 세금 증가 등에서 비교 국가 대학생보다 인지된 위협 수준이 높았다. 셋째, 국민정체성 각 하위 요인은 다문화태도에 각각 독립적이기보다는 상호 영향관계 속에서 다문화태도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제56권5호
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• pp.773-796
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• 2010

This essay examines, first, the possibility and limitation of Asian America as a category of identity and its political and cultural implications through various theoretical perspectives. Here, by closely reading David Mura's poem "The Colors of Desire," I will argue that "Asian America" as a category of identity is now on the verge of falling apart and its politics of identity is no longer an effective way of fighting back against racism in the US. It is because Asian America is indeed what might be called a historical block, a product of ad-hoc coalition between different ethnic groups historically situated and constructed. In this sense, it is a kind of phantasmal object that is marked by practical absence. This fabricatedness inherent in Asian America as an identity category signifies that it has no essence that is meant to define the group in a transcendental way. The internal totality and coherence of that identity can thus be achieved only by suppressing differences between various ethnic groups and positing a single 'authentic' Asian American identity and culture. More dangerously, according to Viet Nguyen, such idealization of a single subject position can reinforces ideological rigidity that might threaten the ability of Asian America to represent itself in a unified fashion. Then, he predicts, Asian America will lose its cohesive force and fall apart. Eventually, every group within Asian America will be ethnicized. The only way of escaping from this bleak situation, as Vincent Cheng argues, is to foregroud the fabricatedness and ad-hocness of Asian America and to perform "inauthenticity," because Asian America is nothing but a functional category that is marked by absence of essence or authenticity. If Asian Americans admit that they have no essence and that they are essentially inauthentic, the practice of performing inauthenticity can become what we might call an alternative Asian American culture and identity.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.45-64
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• 2016

In order to understand Korean American immigrants'adjustment to American society, it is important to understand how their life rituals and ethnic identities maintain or change over time and across immigration generations. To achieve this goal, this study examined how Korean Americans who resided in the New York City metropolitan area and New Jersey State performed life rituals and formed ethnic identities. A total of 18 Korean immigrants participated in one-on-one in-depth interviews and the interview data were analyzed with the themes. The results showed that Korean Americans performed life rituals integrating both Korean and American cultural aspects. Many Korean Americans attempted to perform life rituals based on American cultural holidays and procedures. However, a majority of these Koreans also strived to maintain Korean ethnic identities and also practice traditionally Korean life rituals as a way to preserve this ethnic identity. These findings suggest that across time and generation, Korean Americans prefer to maintain their Korean cultural identity, while not shunning the adoption of typical "American" rituals. The way that Korean Americans practice and develop identities differs very little across immigration generation. These findings provide insight on how the Korean government may support foreigners and immigrant families in South Korea and Korean Americans' acculturation processes in the U.S.