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학술연구/단체지원/교육 등 연구자 활동을 지속하도록 DBpia가 지원하고 있어요.
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연구자들이 자신의 연구와 전문성을 널리 알리고, 새로운 협력의 기회를 만들 수 있는 네트워킹 공간이에요.
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- 자료유형
- 학술대회자료
- 저자정보
- 저널정보
- 전남대학교 글로벌디아스포라연구소 전남대학교 글로벌디아스포라연구소 국제학술회의 A Model Nation? Overseas Adoption from South Korea: An International Perspective
- 발행연도
- 2011.10
- 수록면
- 97 - 117 (21page)
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This study aims to speculate on the experiences and identities of the overseas Korean adoptees from the perspective of transnational diaspora. It is assumed that adoptees are transnational actors with multiple identities beyond the boundaries of their nation or state although they are simply overseas Koreans from the perspective of blood lines. Most adoptees have had a diasporic identity while recognizing that their appearance is different from others in the host country and have been raised having the fundamental question: "Who am I?" At the same time, they have had opportunity to visit their homeland to find their roots and identities thanks to the expansion of the transnational social environment, and have eventually come to realize the difference in language and culture between their native and host country. It is surprising that the Korean government, which has devoted itself to the discharge of adoptees for more than a half century, began to arrange home visiting programs and pay much attention to root-finding and home visitation projects.
The study targeted the process of their development from being simply overseas adoptees to becoming part of the overseas Korean diaspora, focusing on home visits and their search for their birth-parents between 2005 and 2010. For case study, interviews and motherland visit programs were arranged and observed, and adoption agencies were visited. A total of 30 OKA were involved most of which visited Korea from the U.S., Switzerland, Sweden, England, Denmark, and the Netherlands and some whom we met in their resident countries participated in the interview.
Diaspora, as overseas adoptees, show a sense of crisis and resistance about their identity when their own language and cultural values are ignored in the place where they have settled. However, when they feel they are respected and their culture and social positions are guaranteed, they will respond positively. Thus, diaspora"s attitude to life has an important meaning individually and socially. This paper argued that, for mutual exchange between homeland and overseas adoptee communities, both should have an open mind and a dignified attitude to accept and recognize the cultures of other society where they are living now.
The study targeted the process of their development from being simply overseas adoptees to becoming part of the overseas Korean diaspora, focusing on home visits and their search for their birth-parents between 2005 and 2010. For case study, interviews and motherland visit programs were arranged and observed, and adoption agencies were visited. A total of 30 OKA were involved most of which visited Korea from the U.S., Switzerland, Sweden, England, Denmark, and the Netherlands and some whom we met in their resident countries participated in the interview.
Diaspora, as overseas adoptees, show a sense of crisis and resistance about their identity when their own language and cultural values are ignored in the place where they have settled. However, when they feel they are respected and their culture and social positions are guaranteed, they will respond positively. Thus, diaspora"s attitude to life has an important meaning individually and socially. This paper argued that, for mutual exchange between homeland and overseas adoptee communities, both should have an open mind and a dignified attitude to accept and recognize the cultures of other society where they are living now.
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Abstract
Ⅰ. Why the Discourse on Adoptees Is Emerging?
Ⅱ. Theoretical Review on Overseas Korean Adoptees
Ⅲ. Research Design
Ⅳ. Overseas Korean Adoptees in the Perspective of Diaspora
Ⅴ. Conclusion
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