미감아(未感兒), 도래하지 않은 미래의 폭력

Abstract

Based on novels, newspaper articles, and essays related to Hansen, this paper analyzed the family composition of Hansen's parents, the birth of children, and the problem of Migam-a(未感兒). The Hansen people in the novel were exploited in Sorok Island, Japanese colonial era. They have lived on the brink of isolation and discrimination all their lives. In particular, even the basic human rights of marriage and childbirth were deprived. Children born to avoid such a process of oppression have become another subject of discrimination under the name of Migam-a(未感兒). The Hansen people wanted to refuse to let punishment of heaven continue to their children. In the novels of Lee Chung-joon, Yoon Jung-mo, and So Jae-won, problems related to discontinuation surgery, marriage permission, and childbirth of Hansen people were examined. Our society has dealt with the problem of taking away the basic human rights of Hansen people and suppressing their children with the possibility of infection in the future that has not arrived. For the control of the Hansen people, discrimination was created with the term “Migam-a(未感兒)” that could deliberately manage Hansen's children. In other words, Migam-a(未感兒) is a the other. In addition, the texts included in newspaper articles and Hansen's magazines 『Welfares』 were narrated centering on the movement to refuse to attend school for Hansen's children. Although it has already been medically proven that Hansen's disease is curable and not contagious, the public is still opposed to the activities of Hansen's children. The problem of otherization of Migam-a(未感兒) is a combination of ignorance of infectious diseases, eugenics, and racism. Whether they wanted to or not, they had no choice but to go and stand in their place, which the world had already cut. In the end, it will be up to the community to track and restore the voices of those who have been reduced to the other