오무라 수용소를 둘러싼 젠더화된 기억 서사: 수용소(asylum)의 공간, 피난소(asyl)의 시간

Abstract

The Omura Immigration Detention camp was established in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan in 1950. Until the 1980s, it mainly functioned as a facility for people from the Korean Peninsula who were to be deported. Most of them were "illegal" immigrants from South Korea after 1945, and some were criminal offenders among Koreans living in Japan. The Omura Detention camp was not an institution of punishment and corrections and there were no forced labor or explicit atrocities. The mission of this institution was the smooth repatriation of Koreans, who became illegal immigrants in the process of dismantling the empire and deepening of the Cold War regime, in their divided "home country" based on a set schedule. On the other hand, this study examines the memories and narratives of the inmates who routinely experienced the Omura camp. The study analyzes the contrast in memories and narratives of the inmates, paying attention to the age and gender-based differences in camp experience that appear in the interview survey. In the case of men, deprivation of activeness and independence in isolated spaces did not lead to an active self-narrative to detention experience, while in the case of women, the narrative of the community as sharing food and leisure with family and hometown people was represented. Through this survey, this paper analyzed the Omura detention camp experience from the perspective of asyl, which has the same origin as asylum.