“…The periphery also takes shape through processes of subjectification in state and public discourses that constitute them as problematic subjects. Migrants are often associated with deviant or criminal behavior, at risk of becoming undocumented (Kim ) or viewed as “oppressed”, “victims”, and “to be saved” in ways that reinforce their position “at the bottom of the migrant hierarchy” (Kim :108). As participants noted, these perceptions also articulate into encounters with Korean populations: I faced it during my time there, all kinds of attitudes, all of it.…”
Section: Migration and Marginalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is an articulation of considerable agency by a mobile subject, the undocumented worker, who is so often characterized as a “victim”, vulnerable and in need of assistance (Kim ). Migrants like Pin choose to remain undocumented in order to extend their time in Korea because it is an opportunity to earn further income but also because they have established substantive relations with employers, colleagues and friends.…”
Section: Becoming Undocumented and The Subversion Of Controlmentioning
This paper explores the politics of migration through a focus on labor migration regimes and the urban lives of migrants in the Seoul Metropolitan Region of South Korea. In particular, it draws attention to the ways in which migrant lives highlight the limits of the contemporary emphasis on control in migration management regimes. The paper contends that while migration management certainly reworks the socio-legal status of migrants, the desire for control is often displaced in the everyday presence and practices of migrants as urban residents. In order to develop this argument I focus on the notion of the urban periphery as a spatio-temporal configuration that manifests marginalization but is also potentially generative, innovative and destabilizing. The paper proceeds by exploring three dimensions of the periphery: (1) the mobile commons that emerges in everyday life; (2) the process of becoming undocumented and the subversion of control; and (3) the tactics of recognition that challenge the peripheral location of migrants. In each case the focus on the urban periphery draws attention to the importance of visibility and invisibility in migration, to the uneven spatio-temporal configuration of migrant lives in the city, and to the ways in which migrant desires constitute a politics that exceeds what is normatively expected of them. Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 한국의
“…The periphery also takes shape through processes of subjectification in state and public discourses that constitute them as problematic subjects. Migrants are often associated with deviant or criminal behavior, at risk of becoming undocumented (Kim ) or viewed as “oppressed”, “victims”, and “to be saved” in ways that reinforce their position “at the bottom of the migrant hierarchy” (Kim :108). As participants noted, these perceptions also articulate into encounters with Korean populations: I faced it during my time there, all kinds of attitudes, all of it.…”
Section: Migration and Marginalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is an articulation of considerable agency by a mobile subject, the undocumented worker, who is so often characterized as a “victim”, vulnerable and in need of assistance (Kim ). Migrants like Pin choose to remain undocumented in order to extend their time in Korea because it is an opportunity to earn further income but also because they have established substantive relations with employers, colleagues and friends.…”
Section: Becoming Undocumented and The Subversion Of Controlmentioning
This paper explores the politics of migration through a focus on labor migration regimes and the urban lives of migrants in the Seoul Metropolitan Region of South Korea. In particular, it draws attention to the ways in which migrant lives highlight the limits of the contemporary emphasis on control in migration management regimes. The paper contends that while migration management certainly reworks the socio-legal status of migrants, the desire for control is often displaced in the everyday presence and practices of migrants as urban residents. In order to develop this argument I focus on the notion of the urban periphery as a spatio-temporal configuration that manifests marginalization but is also potentially generative, innovative and destabilizing. The paper proceeds by exploring three dimensions of the periphery: (1) the mobile commons that emerges in everyday life; (2) the process of becoming undocumented and the subversion of control; and (3) the tactics of recognition that challenge the peripheral location of migrants. In each case the focus on the urban periphery draws attention to the importance of visibility and invisibility in migration, to the uneven spatio-temporal configuration of migrant lives in the city, and to the ways in which migrant desires constitute a politics that exceeds what is normatively expected of them. Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 한국의
“…When oppression is shown, media focus primarily on migrant women and their children as helpless victims (N. H.‐J. Kim, ; S. Kim, ). This provides justification to paternalistically save and assimilate migrant women.…”
Section: State‐supported Multiculturalism—gendered and Assimilativementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Han, ; A. E. Kim, ), desire for global (Western) recognition (S. Cheng, ), local articulations of patriarchy and social hierarchy (N. H.‐J. Kim, ), and its recent history as an emasculated former colony of Japan (K.‐K. Han, ).…”
My Little Hero (2013) is the first popular Korean film to focus on an immigrant narrative that features a non‐Korean or biracial Korean‐White lead. In the story of a young Filipino‐Korean boy's “Korean dream” to be accepted by his father/birth country and his reluctant and cynical teacher, the film reifies dominant Korean discourses of multiculturalism that are situated within local and global hierarchies. Locally, Korean multiculturalism looks down, requiring the non‐White multiethnic other to integrate into dominant culture. Globally, it looks up to seek the paternal acceptance of the United States. In the film, multicultural discourses work to support the instrumental assimilation of the multiethnic other for the purposes of assimilating Korea within the ranks of “advanced” countries.
“…In some countries, this has sparked national conversations about the implications of migration in terms of multiculturalism. This has emerged in uneven ways, with countries like South Korea taking a top-down approach to multiculturalism policy that selectively focuses on a subset of the population (Kim 2011(Kim , 2012, while countries such as Japan, where there is no government multiculturalism policy, nevertheless acknowledge forms of multiculturalism in everyday contexts such as "multicultural co-living" (Iwabuchi, Kim, and Hsia 2016). In countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, rigorous ethnic classification is used to manage the diverse population.…”
This article introduces the special issue, Everyday Multiculturalism in/across Asia. It provides an overview of the international and inter-disciplinary research papers included in the special issue which all speak to the concept of everyday multiculturalism by critically engaging with the extent to which core aspects relate to different contexts in and across Asia. Papers in this collection encompass research undertaken in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea and which include issues of intraregional movement and labour mobility particularly regarding the experiences of migrants from Burma, China, Nepal, The Philippines and India. A key contribution of this special issue is that the papers engage with empirical, theoretical and methodological questions which consider the potential transferability of ideas related to everyday multiculturalism, especially in the context of expanding trans-Asian mobilities.
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