HaeRan Shin
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Soyoung Park
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Keywords: Chosŏnjok migrants, urban informality, undocumented migrants, South Korea, Seoul
DOI: 10.5509/2017903459
This study looks at how a regime of urban informality has taken shape in a migrant receiving community in Seoul, South Korea. It investigates how actors from the public sector and the private sector came to help undocumented Chosŏnjok migrants stay in the Kuro/Taerim area of Seoul regardless of their legal status. We view such practices as a response to local changes provoked by shifts in the geopolitical environment and fluctuating national policies. Based on longitudinal fieldwork, including in-depth interviews, participant observation, and archival research, the findings of this study are as follows. First, public-sector actors, including the Korea immigration service, local authorities, and local police, have shifted their roles from controlling to accommodating, being motivated by competition with other departments, promotion, and personal attachment. Second, the private sector has expanded its role, building on relations with Chosŏnjok as easygoing customers and service providers. This study contributes to the understanding of regimes of informal settlements and their spatial contexts.
人口迁移中的非正式化的都市管理体系: 在韩国首尔市的接收社区中安置无合法身份的中国朝鲜族迁移人口
关键词:都市非正式化,接收社区,中国朝鲜族,无合法身份的迁移人口,公共部门,首尔市。
本论文检视了韩国首尔市的接收迁移人口的一个社区中的非正式化的都市管理体系是如何形成的。论文考察了公共部门和私人部门的行动者是如何不计对方身份,帮助无合法身份的中国朝鲜族迁移人口居留在首尔的九老/大林地区的。我们认为这些实际做法是对地方上受到地缘政治环境变迁以及国家政策变动影响而发生的变动而做出的反应。本研究根据长期历时性的田野考察,包括深度访谈、参与式观察以及档案研究,得出如下结论:首先,包括韩国移民局、本地政府以及地方警察在内的公共部门行动者在与其它部门竞争的压力及职位提升和个人情感投入的驱动下,已经把他们的角色从控制转变成了安置。其次,以中国朝鲜族迁移人口作为容易打交道的客户和对韩国主流服务市场已经厌倦的服务提供者之间的关系为基础,私人部门也扩展了它的作用。本研究对理解非正式安置迁移人口的管理体系和它们的空间背景有所贡献。
Translated from English by Li Guo
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