제목: A Tale of Two Cities: Navigating the Politics of Hate of North Korean Migrants in Seoul and New Malden
요약: This chapter examines the experiences of North Korean migrants in Seoul, South Korea, and New Malden, United Kingdom, focusing on their navigation of discrimination, hate speech, and the development of peacebuilding capacities. Utilizing autobiographical narrative inquiry, the study provides a dual comparative analysis of these two cities to understand the migrants’ experiences in different cultural and sociopolitical contexts. The concept of “bridging civic identities” is central and characterized by cosmopolitanism, interconnectedness, and imaginativeness, enabling the transformation of conflict-attuned civic identities into peacebuilding civic identities. In Seoul, migrants face significant discrimination rooted in the “division habitus,” a legacy of the Korean War, but develop strategies to overcome these challenges, leveraging educational opportunities and social networks. In New Malden, a cosmopolitan space, migrants reconstruct new civic identities, the so-called “cosmopolitan (civic) identities” and gain skills to adapt to British society, benefiting from the social welfare system. The chapter highlights the comparative analysis of these cities, revealing how those unique Northerners transform their civic identities, the conflicts they feel with belonging, and how they cultivate new capacities as bridge citizens.
주제어: north Korean migrants, politics of hate, bridging civic identities, peacebuilding capacities, autobiographical narrative inquiry
출처: Cheong, S. M.-C. (2024). A Tale of Two Cities: Navigating Politics of Hate of North Korean Migrants in Seoul and New Malden, In Izabela A. Dahl (Ed), Exploring Contemporary Challenge in Global Politics and Society. London: Intech Open Publishing.
