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헤테로토피아로서의 이주 공간: 텔아비브 필리핀 노인돌봄노동자들의 '주말아파트'를 중심으로 (Constructing a Heterotopia of Migrant Space: 'Weekend Flat' of Filipino Migrant Care-givers in Tel Aviv, Israel)

  • 임안나
    • 대한지리학회지
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    • 제51권6호
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    • pp.799-817
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    • 2016
  • 본 논문은 초국적 이주노동자들이 거주국 내에서 수행하는 다층적인 사회적 관계와 공간적 실천을 살펴봄으로써 '차이의 공간'이 생산되는 과정을 고찰하고, 이러한 이질적인 공간을 단순히 외부 세계로부터 분리되고 타자화된 공간이 아니라 이주자들의 일상적 경험이 외부 세계와 상호작용하는 과정에서 새로운 의미와 질서가 재생산되는 헤테로토피아 공간으로 분석한다. 필자는 입주돌봄노동자로서 이스라엘에 체류하는 필리핀 이주자들의 일상 리듬이 주중-작업장, 주말-아파트로 패턴화된다는 사실에 주목하고, 이들이 주말마다 점유하는 텔아비브 네베셰아난의 '아파트'에 분석의 초점을 둔다. 이러한 주말아파트는 비록 주말에만 일시적으로 존재하는 공간이지만 필리핀 이주민사회를 구성하는 최소한의 사회적 단위인 동시에 경제, 사회, 종교적 활동의 핵심 장소로서 기능하며, '위험하고 적대적인 외부 세계'로부터 분리된 '안식처(shelter)'로 기능함으로써 거주국에서 배제되고 주변화된 이주노동자들이 "그들만의 세계"를 구축하는 것을 가능케 한다. 이 논문에서 이주노동자들의 일상적 실천을 통해 유의미한 공간으로 전환되는 '주말아파트'는 이주노동자 삶의 역동성을 이해하고 지배집단의 통제 속에서도 능동적으로 공간을 전유하는 이주자들의 적극적인 행위성을 드러내는 데 유용한 통로로 분석된다. 주말아파트는 이주자들의 필요를 충족시켜주는 다양한 기능을 가진 독특한 공간으로서 다른 공간들과 경계가 뚜렷하고 철저하게 분리된 공간으로 나타나지만, 그것을 둘러싼 외부 공간과의 관계 속에서 형성되는 헤테로토피아 공간으로 해석될 수 있다.

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A New Challenge to Korean American Religious Identity: Cultural Crisis in Korean American Christianity

  • Ro, Young-Chan
    • 대순사상논총
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    • 제18권
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    • pp.53-79
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    • 2004
  • This paper explores the relationship between Korean immigrants to the United States and their religious identity from the cultural point of view. Most scholarly studies on Korean immigrants in the United States have been dominated by sociological approach and ethnic studies in examining the social dimension of the Korean immigrant communities while neglecting issues concerning their religious identity and cultural heritage. Most Korean immigrants to America attend Korean churches regardless their religious affiliation before they came to America. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the fact that Korean church has provided a necessary social service for the newly arrived immigrants. Korean churches have been able to play a key role in the life of Korean immigrants. Korean immigrants, however, have shown a unique aspect regarding their religious identity compared to other immigrants communities in the United States. America is a nation of immigrants, coming from different parts of the world. Each immigrant community has brought their unique cultural heritage and religious persuasion. Asian immigrants, for example, brought their own traditional religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism. People from the Middle Eastern countries brought Islamic faith while European Jews brought the Jewish tradition. In these immigrant communities, religious identity and cultural heritage were homo genously harmonized. Jewish people built synagogue and taught Hebrew, Jewish history, culture, and faith. In this case, synagogue was not only the house of worship for Jews but also the center for learning Jewish history, culture, faith, and language. In short, Jewish cultural history was intimately related to Jewish religious history; for Jewish immigrants, learning their social and political history was indeed identical with leaning of their religious history. The same can be said about the relationship between Indian community and Hinduism. Hindu temples serve as the center of Indian immigrantsin providing the social, cultural, and spiritual functions. Buddhist temples, for that matter, serve the same function to the people from the Asian countries. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetans, and Thais have brought their respective Buddhist traditions to America and practice and maintain both their religious faith and cultural heritage. Middle Eastern people, for example, have brought Islamic faith to the United States, and Mosques have become the center for learning their language, practicing their faith, and maintaining their cultural heritage. Korean immigrants, unlike any other immigrant group, have brought Christianity, which is not a Korean traditional religion but a Western religion they received in 18th and 19th centuries from the West and America, back to the United States, and church has become the center of their lives in America. In this context, Koreans and Korean-Americans have a unique situation in which they practice Christianity as their religion but try to maintain their non-Christian cultural heritage. For the Korean immigrants, their religious identity and cultural identity are not the same. Although Korean church so far has provides the social and religious functions to fill the need of Korean immigrants, but it may not be able to become the most effective institution to provide and maintain Korean cultural heritage. In this respect, Korean churches must be able to open to traditional Korean religions or the religions of Korean origin to cultivate and nurture Korean cultural heritage.

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