• 동남아시아연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.31-72
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• 2010

This study is to explain the nature of transnational activities being involved in by Filipina intermarriage migrants in Korea by examining the institutional backgrounds of market, society and the state. The increasing number of Filipina intermarriage with Korean coincides with the advance of liberal market economy, which governs internal and bilateral interactions between and among the three institutions in both countries. While existing various reasons for engaging in intermarriage, a significant number of Filipina wives in Korea ventured into it with uncertain expectations that they might earn better lives and could support their families. Such hopes usually turn out in vain when they meet the real lives in Korea. It is mainly because their spouses in Korea would rather be those who left behind in the marriage market due to their lack of competitiveness. Filipina wives are also suffering from social isolation caused by language and other barriers such as family relations or rural life they might settle in. Their transnational activities usually tend to be their effort to breakthrough their unexpected condition of difficult lives in Korea. They usually make use of transnational sort of community activities to cultivate chances to engage in bread earning activity. Migrant's transnational activity has a great impact on sociocultural changes in the country of origin and of arrival. Transnational activity provides migrants with economic opportunities, and uplifts self-esteem as well. Intermarriage couples, especially with Southeast Asian wives, and their offsprings show a tendency of downward assimilation to Korean society. Korean state policy toward them should not simply apply undiscriminated assimilation theory, but take into account their possible strength of transnational identity with which they could find a means to integrate themselves successfully into the mainstream Korean society.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.203-222
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• 2013

본 연구는 두 가지 목적 하에서 수행되었다. 하나는 결혼 이주 여성이 가족, 이웃, 친구, 조직, 국가와 관계하면서 겪는 갈등, 차별, 저항 등을 구체적으로 탐색하는 것이다. 다른 하나는 결혼 이주 여성과 가족을 새로운 시각, 즉 초국가(국경을 초월한 로컬과 로컬의 관계), 로컬, 국가와의 관계적 공간으로 설명하는 데 있다. 연구 결과는 세 가지로 요약될 수 있다. 첫째는 국제결혼에 의해 초국가적 공간이 형성되며, 생성된 공간은 결혼 이주 여성의 (비)일상적 활동에 의해 유지된다. 초국가적 활동은 송금(remittance), 자녀의 양육과 교육, 친정 방문, 전화나 인터넷 등을 통한 정서적 교감 등이 포함된다. 둘째는 결혼 이주 여성이 가족, 이웃, 친구, 기관 등과 연관됨에 따라 중층적인 관계적 로컬 공간이 형성 유지되고 있다. 셋째는 결혼 이주 여성은 국적 취득과 정부(지방자치단체)의 다문화 지원 사업의 측면에서 국가 권력 혹은 정부 행정과 연관되어 있다. 국민 정체성과 관련지어 결혼 이주 여성은 모국과 한국 가운데 어디에 속하는지 구분이 불명확한 위치에 놓여 있음을 느끼는 경우도 있다.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제70권
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• pp.66-94
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• 2015

포스트식민주의는 근자의 글로벌 사회 문화 현상을 설명하고 이해하는 데 중요한 이론적 자원으로 자리잡아 왔다. 문화가 갖는 보편성이나 초월적 진정성을 부정하는 포스트식민주의 이론은 근본주의적 가정을 벗어나 주체와 정체성이 재개념화되는 길을 열어 주며, 지리적 경계를 가로질러 부유하는 디아스포라의 혼종적 문화 경험을 통해 기존의 지배적인 문화적 상상과 사회관계에 대한 담론 질서를 전복시킬 수 있는 가능성을 그려 내기도 한다. 그러나 전 세계 문화의 차이와 다양성을 강조하는 포스트식민주의 서사는 변화와 재조정 과정에 있으나 여전히 강고하게 자리 잡고 있는 중심부와 주변부 국가들 간 불평등한 권력 관계 속에서 특정한 지역민들과 이주민들이 새로운 형태의 피착취 집단으로 구성되고 있는 현실을 제대로 조명하지 못하는 경향이 있다. 이 글의 목적은 포스트식민주의 이론이 전개되고 전유되어 온 과정에 대한 비판적 리뷰를 통해 지금 시기 글로벌 수준에서 발생하고 있는 부정의의 문제들을 보다 비판적으로 성찰할 수 있는 방안을 모색하는 것이다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.149-167
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• 2008

Korea has persisted in the notion of "ethnic nationalism." That is "one race, one people, one language" as a homogeneous entity. This social ideal of unity prevails, even in overseas Korean communities formed by voluntary and involuntary displacement in the turmoil of modern history: communities made intermittent with the Japanese colonial occupation and with postcolonial encounters with the West. Given that the Korean people suffered from the trauma of deprivation of the language caused by the loss of the nation, nation has been equated with the language. Accordingly, "these bearers of a homeland" are also firm Korean language holders. The linguistic patriotism of unity based on the intertwining of "mother tongue" and "father country" has become prevalent in the collective memory of the people of the Korean diaspora. Korean American literature has grappled with this concept of the national history of Korea and the Korean language. The aesthetics of Korean American literature has been marked by an influx of literary resources of 'Korea' in sensibilities and structure of feelings; Korean myth, folk lore, songs, humor, traditional stories, manners, customs and historic moments. An experimental use of the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, written down as pronounced, provides an ethnic flavor in the midst of the English texts. Despite its national framework of mind, however, Korean American literature as an interstitial art reveals a keen awareness of inbetweenness, and transnational hybrid identities. By exploring the complex interrelationships of cultural and linguistic boundary-crossing practices in Korean American literature, this paper argues that the poetics of the Korean diaspora challenges the closed structure of identity formation, and offers a transnational sphere to deconstruct a rigidly demarcated national ideology of "one race, one people, one language," for the world literary history.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.1089-1109
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• 2011

In an attempt to demonstrate in context of Nietzsche's "overman" (ubermensch) and Heidegger's "Being-in-the-World" (Dasein) the collective human efforts to overcome humanism in crisis, I will provide the ground for the poetics of overcoming, the ground which are based upon the double movements of transhumanism and transnationalism. For this purpose, I will turn to the theories of two distinctive poets who reveal and disreveal their truths about the subjecthood or the subjectivity in terms of overcoming: Christopher Dewdney for posthuman transhumanity and Dionisio D. Martinez for transnational cultural contamination Transhumanism represented by Christopher Dewdney manifests an interfusion of outside and inside, thereby collapsing the boundary between the mind and the world, and provides a breakthrough from the limitedly defined mind to the transhuman perspective of overcoming by using terminalogy and techniques from science and technology. The emerging transhumanism reflects the growing interdependence between humans and bio technologies, and suggests a potential improvement of human beings. The main argument of transhumanism is that we humans can and should continue to develop in all possible directions, by overcoming our human limitations by shedding the body and having the disembodied consciousness which will liberate our mind. Kwame Anthony Appiah's "cultural contamination" is another form of overcoming as well as a way to otherness, a counter-ideal of cultural purity which sustains authentic culture, reversing the traditional binary opposition between enriching authenticity and threatening hybridization. Dionisio Martinez's poetry sublimates the negative side of Appiah's concept of contamination, by redeeming the value of the Appiah's list of the ideal of contamination such as hybridity, impurity, intermingling, the transformation that comes of new and unexpected combinations of human beings, a bit of this and a bit of that is how newness enters the world. When a poetic subject is doubly exiled and doubly homeless away from his/her native homeland and home of native language, one has no more identification with the authentic culture of both home and away, but rather anticipates a new identity as a transnational subject to cross the bridge beyond cultural authenticity and to enter into the field of cultural contamination.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.180-194
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• 2016

결혼이주여성의 지역정체성은 특정 장소나 위치에 고정된 것이 아니라 지리적 이동과 새로운 지역으로의 정착을 통해 유연적 유동적으로 구성된다. 본 연구에서는 이주라는 공간적 전환을 통해 구성 재구성되는 결혼이주여성의 지역정체성과 생활 변화에 주목하였다. 이를 위해 결혼이주여성의 지역정체성을 다문화와 이중문화 정체성, 동화와 한국문화 정체성, 배제와 본국문화 정체성, 주변화와 주변문화 정체성으로 유형화하여 결혼이주여성의 이주 및 정착과정에서 나타나는 생활 변화 특성을 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 이주의 실행이라는 동일한 경험을 한 결혼이주여성이라 할지라도 개인적, 지역적 특성과 그 속에서 주어진 역할에 따라 상이한 지역정체성을 형성했다. 또한 대부분의 결혼이주여성들은 본국문화 정체성의 유지 및 표출에 소극적인 것으로 나타났다. 과반수이상의 결혼이주여성들이 다문화와 이중문화 정체성, 동화와 한국문화 정체성 유형으로 나타났다. 또한 동화와 한국문화 정체성 유형의 결혼이주여성이 다른 유형보다 생활만족도 변화가 크게 나타났다. 이를 통해 여전히 한국사회의 결혼이주여성에게는 동화와 순응이 적응과 동일개념으로 인식됨을 확인할 수 있었다. 그러나 결혼이주여성 및 다문화 가정 자녀의 이문화 역량은 문화와 문화 사이의 교량적 역할을 가능하게 하며, 한국의 다문화사회 다문화공간으로의 전환을 위해서는 서로의 문화를 상호인정하고, 공존할 수 있는 전세계적 시민성 함양이 필요함을 제언했다.

• 미국학
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.25-56
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• 2020

The essay examines two contemporary American plays that portray adult Korean American adoptees' return to South Korea: How to Be a Korean Woman (2012) by Sunmee Chomet and Middle Brother (2014) by Eric Sharp. While the existing scholarship on transnational adoption has discussed homecoming as a predominantly female experience of birth mothers and daughters, Chomet and Sharp suggest the differing ways in which the adoptee subjectivity is re-imagined in particularly gendered ways after homecoming. In these plays, adult adoptees' repeated, mundane bodily performances of Korean cultural norms illustrate how notions of femininity and masculinity are inscribed onto the body of adoptee individuals under the patriarchal system. Such performative construction of Korean-ness departs from the earlier theatrical representations of young, adolescent adoptees' homecoming that served as a symbolic rite of passage, a necessary process through which they would gain cultural hybridity and mature into cosmopolitan American-ness.

• 미국학
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.99-131
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• 2018

The United States of America is privileged in that social stratification is not directly linked to the division of powers. Nonetheless, America endured the devastating Civil War only to consolidate her national identity when a nation was not defined. In fact, state governments preexisted as a sovereign long before the federal government came into existence as a national government. As a consequence, intergovernmental relations have persistently been contested long after the Civil War ended. In contrast, the European Union was founded on the political will to establish regional integration such that her member states would never repeat the bloodshed in catastrophic wars. Since the principle of subsidiarity precipitated political endeavor in regional integration, the EU developed into a bifurcated system of transnational and international organizations. In this paper, I evaluate the US and the EU by applying the perspective of federalism in which separation and integration are perennially at tension.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제62권3호
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• pp.323-351
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• 2010

본 연구의 목적은 재독한인1세대 여성들의 이민생활에 나타난 가치관과 정체성의 변화과정을 초국가적 관점에서 생애사적 접근을 통해 재구성하는 데에 있다. 이를 위해 Schutze의 생애사적-내러티브 인터뷰 10개를 실시하였고, 인터뷰 자료는 그의 생애사적-내러티브 인터뷰 분석과 Mayring의 질적 내용분석 방법을 응용하여 분석하였다. 그 결과, 이민 초기의 가치관은 집단주의 중심적 혼성성을 보였는데, 이민생활과정에서 개인주의 중심적 혼성가치관으로 전환되고 있음을 포착하였다. 한편, 이민초기의 정체성은 단일지역적 정체성을 보였는데, 이민생활과정에서 이중지역적, 이중국가적 혼성정체성으로 초지역적, 초국가적 전환이 이루어지고 있음을 밝혔다. 이러한 연구결과에 근거해 이민생활에 나타난 가치관과 정체성의 변화과정에 주목한 이론적 및 실천적 함의를 제시하였다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제29권
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• pp.177-199
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• 2012

Nowadays migrations between the countries are getting each day more active and a mixture of people with different cultural backgrounds strengthens the hybridism, whereupon the point of view on the migration of Koreans has been changed from a diasporan perspective to an transnational one. The expansion of the transnationalism affects the identity of the subsequent generations of the immigration giving way to a psychologically deterritorialized social identity, which is an important consideration in the study of subsequent generations of the immigration. This study examined the Korean immigration history and the current status of the Korean community in Spain since the 1960s. The early immigrants like fishing vessel crew members, instructors of Taekwondo, chicken sexers who, despite the limits of foreigners in Spain, went to find out the source of life with no hesitation, overcame the difficulties of the early settlers and finally managed to achieve local success. Current history of immigration that began in the mid-1960s went through the maturity during the 1970s and 80s and the Koreans in Spain these days, who have undergone differentiation in the occupational structure because of the crisis of pelagic fisheries, face new challenges due to changes in the environment of the country they reside. The Korean community is regarded as an 'exemplary minority group (Model Minority)' even though it is a minority group in number. Now that the interest for overseas Koreans is higher than ever at home and abroad, due to the economic growth of the Republic of Korea, the spread of its cultural influence -the Korean Wave as proof-, and the overseas Koreans suffrage conducted, the research of the Korean residents in Spain will be important as an advanced research of an unexplored field, as well as an opportunity to broaden the horizons of the existing study area that has mainly dealt with major regions only.