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Dear colleagues and <Korea Journal> editorial staff,<br><br>
I guess that one question that is timely and hadn't been academically
explored yet (at least, in the English-based scholarship), is the issue
of various ethnic minorities within Korean society. The issue might
include both the minorities that might be termed "traditional"
(hwagyo, the Japanese wives that continued to stay in Korea after 1945,
and Amerasian children of USA servicemen), and the ones that one can call
"new" - that came into being after Korea became integrated
fully into East Asian/world labor migration routes in the 1990s
(long-resident chosOnjok, Kosian families of mostly South East Asian
background, Philippine/Russian/Vietnamese brides, etc.). The question had
been debated several times in some Korean journals of opinion
(prominently, in <Tangdae Pip'yOng>), but didn't seem to attract
too much of academic attention even inside Korea (the recent works by
sociologist SOl Tonghun and anthropologist Yu MyOnggi are pleasant
exceptions). The range of possible theoretical approaches to the issue
seems to be quite wide - from the analyses of the degree to which Korean
small and middle-size businesses rely on migrant labor, to the cultural
analyses of how the stereotyped image of "poor",
"pitiful" foreigner is being constructed and
consumed.<br><br>
Best wishes,<br><br>
V. Tikhonov (Pak Noja) <br><br>
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At 18:31 02.03.2004 +0900, you wrote:<br>
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</dl>Vladimir Tikhonov,<br>
Department of East European and Oriental Studies,<br>
Faculty of Arts,<br>
University of Oslo,<br>
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