이주자의 민족경제 실천과 로컬리티의 재구성: 서울 동대문 몽골타운을 사례로 = Reconstruction of Locality by the Practice of Mongolian Migrants` Ethnic Economy at Seoul Mongol Town

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper has been written for the ultimate end to clarify the usefulness of ``place lens`` on the study of transnational migration and network, so as to get over the limitation of methodological nationalism. The Seoul Mongol Town started to be formed as a sojourning place by Mongolian package peddlers since the diplomatic relations established in 1993. Just neighboring the Dongdaemun Market, this place was a ``food alley`` catering to the Korean laborers, and then infiltrated by Russian migrants. Shortly thereafter in 2000 Mongolian migrants began to tremendously increase, the Mongolian migrants got together to the former Russian place, which was facilitated by the easy accessibility to the Dondaemun Market, low land value, the possibility of employment at the manufacturing companies densely accumulated near here, and the sense of fellowship with Russian culture. The building of New Kumho Tower newly erected in 2002 especially has played important roles to enable Mongolian migrants` experiences to be territorialized. For the last 10years, the trans-network of Mongolian migrants has consolidated the identity and functions of the Mongol Town, and reconstructed the new locality by connecting the existing locality of Dongdaemun to the locality of origin bake in Mongol.