Nouveau-Riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea: A Media Narrative Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781138482562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 182 str.

Gil-Soo Han

Opis

This book describes and explains the experiences of discrimination and racism that foreigners and ‘new’ Koreans have faced in a multicultural South Korea. It looks at how society has treated the foreigners and what their experiences have been given that common discourse about race in Korea surrounds issues of Korean heterogeneity and nationalism.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical perspectives on racial discrimination 3. A struggle to legislate anti-racial discrimination law in Korea: dissident grassroots’ perspective 4. Migrant workers: the modern slavery 5. Korean nationalism and foreign professionals 6. Children of international marriage: a future asset or just the subject of discrimination? 7. ‘What more do you want?’: deserted North Korean refugees 8. K-pop nationalism: celebrities and acting blackface in the Korean media 9. Concluding remarks

O autorze

Gil-Soo Han is an Associate Professor of Communications and Media Studies in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. His research interests include migrant communities in Australia and Asia, ethnic media, religion, and health and medicine.