• 영어영문학
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• 제64권4호
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• pp.585-600
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• 2018

Over the last three decades, the field of American Studies has increasingly paid attention to transnational approaches in an effort to diversify and expand the field's concerns beyond the narrow sense of the nation-state in today's globalizing world. Yet, the mediation of the transnational requires a careful analysis of the nation that is still in transit. In this context, this essay examines Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851) as a case study that vividly shows how reading American literature and culture through transnationalism not only offers new interpretations of canonical texts, but also helps us to better understand the historical roots and cultural contexts of contemporary issues such as global labor and migration, US citizenship and racial justice. To address the complexity of the text's circulation and reproduction, coupled with US national ideology and cultural conditions, I first turn to the canonization of Melville's Moby-Dick during the Cold War era as a national project and then explore the possibilities of transnational readings by focusing on the politics of race and global capitalism in the nineteenth century whaling industry. In doing so, I argue that critical transnationalism allows readers to keep questioning about their own understanding of race, nation, and cultural identity while remaining attentive to the destructive force of US imperialism and global capitalism in the twenty-first century.

• 동남아시아연구
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.207-251
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• 2014

This study explores the mobility patterns of Korean Early Study Aborad (ESA, hereafter) students in Singapore through a follow-up longitudinal case study, which was initially conducted about five years before this study. This study takes up transnational migration approach, focusing on family strategies and mobilization, which steered their mobility. Interviews with seven original families as well as 7 families additionally recruited in Singapore in 2012 were collected and analyzed by NVivo 9. In short, this study found that transnational mobility is composed of mobilities at global, regional and local levels. There were four types of mobilities; continuation of stay in Singapore, move from a third county to Singapore, return to Korea, and, what this research calls, fluid mobility. Examining the process of these mobilities shows that we need to consider at least three factors (performance of children's schooling; change of family circumstances; context of reception for both Singapore and Korea) as basic backgrounds. On this basis, the interplay between the context of receptions when aspirations for children's advancement by these transnational families made either facilitate or constrain their mobilities: contexts of Singapore and Korea may play a role of hurdle or trampoline. Also, local context of Singapore largely facilitate mobilities of Korean ESA families at both local and global levels.

• 한국사회복지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국사회복지학회 2002년도 국제학술대회 자료집
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• pp.205-224
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• 2002

This paper addresses to the emerging issues for regional/global welfare issues, with special focus on the potentials and influences of the transnational advocacy activism for human and welfare rights. Part One of the paper outlines the emergence of transnational (cyber-)activism for global welfare. It is followed by a discussion of the incompatibility between economic globalization and regional/local deprivation, as well as the potentials for welfare promotion and empowerment. Part Four critically examines the contours and complexity of informational society. The last two parts delineate, respectively, the barriers against and prospects of global welfare activism.

• 수완나부미
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.115-120
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• 2018

This paper provides comments on Janus Nolasco's paper and the role that transnational or transpacific studies can play in overcoming the division between Philippine Studies (area studies) and Filipino-American scholarship. It draws attention to the fact that the crossing of localities and boundaries is always historically grounded and that the historical contexts in which Filipino diasporic communities are located vary one from another. It also considers the antecedents of more inclusive approaches to understanding the past and the present, and historical agency.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.73-95
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• 2010

European integration is characterized by the development of a transnational European identity, which is considered an integral part of the process. Northeast Asia has no similar projects to address the common identity issue, although cooperation is highly valued there as well. Identity and cooperation both require interdisciplinary approaches combining social psychology, international relations theory and international economics. This article considers the problems of applying existing studies on cooperation and identity as well as the European experience (with the Baltic Sea example) to the case of Northeast Asia. Transnational identities promote cooperation beyond the limits of rationalistic game theory, if countries of the region can define their identities and interests, commit to common goals, create shared discourses and reach a balance between nationalism and internationalism. In view of proposed negotiations on the free trade area between China, Korea and Japan and ongoing discussions about a possibility of introducing a common currency (ACU) it can be crucial to consider the importance of identity building as early as possible, before regional integration meets a stumbling block of egoistic rationality that is a problem in any model of cooperation.

• 수완나부미
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.125-143
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• 2024

Korean dramas, commonly referred to as Koreanovelas or K-Dramas in the Philippines, have significantly influenced and reshaped Philippine television culture since the early 2000s. Their impact persists in contemporary television programming, reflecting the transnational flow of media texts across borders. As media content transcends geographical boundaries, local media companies have adopted the practice of producing adaptations of foreign television series for their audiences. This paper examines the adaptation of the Koreanovela The World of the Married into the Philippine series The Broken Marriage Vow, both of which are adaptations derived from the British show Doctor Foster. Through this comparative analysis, I argue that the process of localizing these television shows to suit the preferences of the target audience serves as a tangible manifestation of transnational adaptation. Particularly in an era of globalization, where entertainment is still a thriving enterprise, thus traversing international borders, this phenomenon demonstrates the evolving nature of television content as it adapts and caters to diverse cultural contexts let alone a profitable means to generate an ailing entertainment industry, especially in the time of the pandemic.

• 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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• 제23권3호
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• pp.514-528
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• 2017

이 연구는 광주광역시에 거주하는 네팔 결혼이주여성을 대상으로 하여 이들의 본국 가족원에 대한 초국적 돌봄의 양상을 규명하고 있다. 네팔 결혼이주여성은 물질적이고 정서적인 지지와 지원, 네팔방문과 직접적 돌봄, 가족의 한국 초청을 통한 노동기회 제공 등 다양한 형식으로 본국 가족에 대한 돌봄을 초국적으로 실천하고 있다. 이러한 초국적 돌봄 실천 양상에 대한 적절한 이해를 위해서 이주여성을 한국 사회와 네팔 사회 사이에 '끼여 있는 존재'(being in-between)로 인식하는 초국적 시각이 요구된다. 네팔 결혼이주여성의 초국적 돌봄은 이주여성의 형제자매 서열에 따른 역할기대, 자녀의 여부, 경제활동 여부, 친정가족원의 국내 체류 여부 등에 따라 그 강도와 내용에 차이가 있다. 또한 이주여성의 본국 가족에 대한 다양한 형식의 초국적 돌봄, 특히 정서적 지지와 출산 및 육아지원은 '일방적'인 것이 아닌 '돌봄의 호혜적 교환'(reciprocal exchange of care)으로 이해되어야 한다.

• 한국과 국제사회
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.109-128
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• 2017

이 연구의 목적은 글로벌시대 디아스포라에 의한 초국적 정체성의 출현과 형성과정, 존재 양상, 기능역할, 작동메커니즘 등을 고찰하는데 있다. 디아스포라의 초국적 정체성 논쟁과 다양성에 관한 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 초국적 정체성 논쟁은 결국 이주자 개인이 자기인식에 대한 자기결정을 어떻게 대응해 나갈 것인가라는 인정(승인)과 타자와의 관계성에 의해 결정된 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 개인적 정체성, 집단적 정체성, 문화적 정체성, 국가적 정체성 등 다양한 정체성의 출현은 이주자의 개인적 경험(자기인식)이나, 상호작용(관계성), 불안정한 지위, 정치적 지지 등 다양한 요소들이 결합되어 형성된 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 글로벌시대 정체성의 개념은 에릭슨의 예상을 훨씬 뛰어넘어 의미확대를 통해 일반인들에게 전폭적으로 전파되었다. 그 이유는 정체성의 개념자체가 개인보다는 민족과 국가라는 보다 확대된 의미에서 국가이데올로기로서 기능을 수행해왔기 때문이다. 넷째, 초국적 정체성이란 개인의 생물학적 특성이든 민족을 대표하는 추상적인 개념이든 자기결정의 주체성과 감정의지에 의해 끊임없이 반복 재생산되고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 글로벌시대 초국적 정체성의 가변성과 유동성은 디아스포라 정체성의 다양성을 초래하였다. 그리고 이러한 초국적 정체성은 개인과 집단의 강약, 분리와 통합, 새로운 집단의 형성과 유지 등과 직접적인 관련성을 가지고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 다섯째, 사례연구결과, 중국조선족의 초국적 정체성은 과계민족으로서 중국국적을 소유한 국민정체성, 디아스포라적 관점에서 이중정체성 이중문화 성격의 적극적 활용을 주장하는 '제3의 정체성'등으로 다양하게 분화되고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 여섯째, 사례연구결과, 일계브라질인의 초국적 정체성은 제1유형(일본인 정체성 지향), 제2유형(브라질인 정체성 지향), 제3유형(일계인 정체성 지향) 등으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 이 연구는 디아스포라의 초국적 정체성이 이주지에서의 차별과 배제를 통해 이주자 자신을 새로운 정체성으로 생산 또는 재생산해 내고 있음을 시사하고 있다.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.141-158
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• 2008

본 연구의 목적은 초국적주의적 관점에서 한인의 러시아 극동지역이주를 분석하는 것이다. 분석결과에 따르면 한인들의 종교적 의식, 언어사용, 집단송금, 민족사업, 이주자 신문 및 이주자 협회 등이 한인 이주민들의 초국적주의적 정체성 형성에 큰 역할을 하였다. 특히, 관련문헌에서 초국적주의 형성에 있어서 필수적인 요소로 간주되는 세계화라는 현상이 존재하지 않았음에도 불구하고, 한인들은 이주지와 정착지간의 초국적주의적 연계성을 유지할 수 있었다는 점에서 한인의 러시아 이주는 큰 의의를 가진다. 또한 일본의 식민지 지배 및 러시아 혁명과 같은 이주지와 정착지에서의 상황적인 변화가 한인이주자들의 초국적주의 형성에 중요한 역할을 하였음이 본 연구에서 밝혀지고 있다.