국민국가의 틈새에서-대만2⋅28사건의 외국인 ‘수난자’를 사례로

Abstract

This paper is a case study of Taiwan 2.28 Incident, and aims to trace how Koreans and Ryukyuans who lived in Taiwan around 1945 were sacrificed in this incident and to examine the process and meaning of being determined as a public victim in the program of the transitional justice after democratization. It is a recent occurrence that ethnic minorities of the 2.28 incidents, who had been neglected between the two countries or multi-nationals, have appeared in the public sphere. Ryukyuan was recognized as a “victim”(受難者) for the first time as a foreigner in 2016, and Koreans were recognized as “victim” in 2017. The birth of foreign “victims” has set a new momentum for the elimination of the national andethnic divisions of the compensation ordinance, which has been set for reliefonly for Taiwanese victims. This suggests the possibility of expanding the historical status of events being repositioned in a national history of Japan to East Asian history. However, if we look closely at the process of therise of foreign “victims”, we can see that there is no transnational imagination and mutual equality between countries is highlighted in the front. As long as the nationalism and ethnocentrism continue, the foreign “victim” will be defined as being in between Taiwan, Japan and Korea, and even if it is emerging, it may be neglected due to the interests between the countries.