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Publication Date: 2020
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Social Production of Space and Everyday Microaggressions: A Case Study of (Im)migrant Youth in South Korea
Ko, Dosun; Hong, Joan J.
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v33 n9 p987-1006 2020
Space is a dynamic social construction in which human experiences and social realities are constantly constructed, deconstructed, and renegotiated. Educational researchers have persistently claimed the necessity of a geospatial turn to divulge the privilege and oppression that takes place in a certain spatial context, and to reimagine the emancipatory possibility of space. Employing a critical lens informed by interdisciplinary literature from critical geography, border theory, and clinical psychology, this instrumental case study examines how the social and spatial production of injustice impact (im)migrant youths' opportunity to learn. Utilizing an ethnic Korean group from the post-Soviet states, referred to as "Koryoin," living in South Korea as a critical case, this case study explores how cultural, linguistic, legal, and economic bordering practices in space result in dehumanizing effects such as microaggressions inflicted towards (im)migrant students and entail academic and psychological harms, pushing "Koryoin" students out of spaces of learning opportunities. The "Koryoin" community's hope, resistance, and struggle to create culturally empowering counter-spaces are further explored.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Minority Groups, Racial Bias, Ethnic Groups, Student Behavior, Social Bias, Cultural Influences, Undocumented Immigrants, Minority Group Students, Public Schools, Educational Discrimination, Educational Environment, Psychological Patterns
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Korea; USSR; Uzbekistan; Kyrgyzstan
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