한국사회의 다문화 관련 용어에 관한 연구 - 현황분석 및 다문화교육 관계자 FGI를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to propose a need to standardize terms and words in the field of multiculturalism now being irregularly used in the Korean society. To serve that purpose, investigations have been made on internet home pages, concerning seven government ministries and agences) An FGI was concurrently implemented on multicultural families and teachers of multicultural education. The investigation reveals that use of inconsistent vocabularies is common. For one thing, at least 25 terms and wordings, slightly different in meanings, were found being used by the government authorities in representing immigrant workers, immigrants married to Korean spouses and north Korean expatriates. The FGI also found that a great majority of the interviewees has experienced confusions and difficulties due to the use of unorganized and irregular terminologies. Accordingly, it necessitate a concerted efforts of the government, schools and all those in related fields to systemize and standardize multicultural terminologies for an efficient multicultural policy implementation. A systematic and consistent use of multicultural terminologies is an imperative for the integration and development of the multicultural Korean society.