결혼이주여성의 선별적 편입과 배제 그리고 유교적 공존의 가능성

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Female marriage immigrants are integrated into Korean society on a selective basis or are excluded from it. The selective integration and exclusion of female marriage immigrants are the manifestation of Korean people’s modern world view, and they are the consequences of it at the same time. This study made an attempt to overcome the contradiction of such a modern world view and to find a solution in Confucianism. Female marriage immigrants expect Korean society to become a place for them to rebuild their lives in pursuit of their dream when they decide to immigrate to Korea. In fact, however, they face difficulties due to the limitations of the legal system and discrimination against minorities, and they have another difficulties in the families into which they are newly incorporated. In a word, they are incorporated into Korean society on a selective basis or are excluded from it. In this study, the state of the selective integration and exclusion of female marriage immigrants was investigated. Especially, family problems that they faced as new members of the families into which they were incorporated through marriage were analyzed, and another problems that took place in the course of their integration into Korean community were analyzed as well. Female marriage immigrants are mostly foreign women who have married Korean men of the disadvantaged class, and their social status are consequently low. They are responsible for child rearing, all the household chores, taking care of their husbands and parents-in-law and even part of farming. It’s no longer possible to expect Korean women to comply with traditional androcentric culture, and foreign brides or daughters-in-law are forced to do that, instead. The poor multicultural sensitivity of Korean society results in distinguishing female marriage immigrants and their children, viewing them as the other and objectifying them, which contributes, in turn, to producing labelling effects and undermining their self-esteem and identity. Next, the reason that such selective integration and exclusion occurred was analyzed from a perspective of modern world view. There were several primary causes for that: deep-rooted, modernized Confucian awareness, emphasis of parentage, doubt about the instrumental utility of the objectified group, and the dichotomous manifestation of patriarchal culture. Finally, whether it would be possible to create an ideal community in which Korean people and female marriage immigrants could live together was explored from a perspective of the world view of original Confucianism that wasn’t yet institutionalized by modernization. How to create the kind of community that female marriage immigrants could share their lives with Korean people was discussed from a viewpoint of Confucian world view, which provides “a framework of relationship building” for female marriage immigrants and Koreans and makes it possible to explore “the possibility of coexistence between the two.” A new multicultural society that is built on Confucian values should be harmonious, balanced and tolerant enough to ensure coexistence based on LiYiFenShuSue.