Contested everyday cultural citizenship: "Mixed race" children and their ethnicized citizenship in South Korea

This article examines how the everyday cultural citizenship of "mixed race" children of one Korean parent and one immigrant parent is contested. This study transposes the concept of ethnicized citizenship to mixed race children and their everyday practices of citizenship based on ethnicity...

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Published inEthnic and racial studies Vol. 44; no. 7; pp. 1231 - 1249
Main Author Lee, Claire Seungeun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Routledge 28.05.2021
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
"mixed race" children
African Americans
Asian cultural groups
Children
Children & youth
Citizenship
Ethnicity
Ethnicized citizenship
Fathers
identity
Immigrants
Migration
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Multiracial people
Narratives
Parents & parenting
Race
race/ethnicity
Sociocultural factors
South Korea
South Korea
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Summary:This article examines how the everyday cultural citizenship of "mixed race" children of one Korean parent and one immigrant parent is contested. This study transposes the concept of ethnicized citizenship to mixed race children and their everyday practices of citizenship based on ethnicity and parent(s). Relying primarily on the personal narratives of mixed race children, derived from essay competitions, this research comparatively analyzes the experiences of three categories of mixed race children: co-ethnic (with a Korean father and ethnic Korean mother from China), inter-Asian (Korean father and Asian [non-Korean] mother), and multiracial (one Korean parent and one European or African American parent). This article argues that the ethnicized citizenship of an immigrant mother operates as a mechanism for institutional and socio-cultural exclusion of mixed race children.
ISSN:0141-9870
1466-4356
DOI:10.1080/01419870.2020.1786143