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Multiethnic Korea? Multiculturalism, Migration, and Peoplehood Diversity in Contemporary South Korea (Transnational Korea 1)
John Lie
Paperback. Institute of East Asian Studies 2015-03-31.
ISBN 9781557291103
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Publisher description
The myth of monoethnic and monocultural Korea is tenacious. In the aftermath of Japanese colonialism, it found renewed strength in the Park Chung Hee era and in South Korean cultural nationalism of the 1980s. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, government sponsorship of cultural globalization valorized the idea of multiculturalism (tamunhwa), but did not dispel widespread discrimination and xenophobia against actual multiethnic and multicultural populations. The contributors to this volume employ the dual concepts of multicultural and multiethnic to make sense of an intriguing facet of the recent and continuing South Korean social transformation.
This is the first English-language book of its kind to address multiculturalism in South Korea. Part 1 presents macroscopic and ethnographic looks at South Korean multiculturalism. Part 2 turns to migrants and others in contemporary South Korea, including North Korean refugees, migrant workers, and Korean adoptees from overseas. Part 3 analyzes groups leading multicultural or multiethnic lives in contemporary South Korea, including biracial children, recent migrants from Africa, and Filipina wives in rural households
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