라틴아메리카와 한국인 이민 /멕시코 한인사회와 현지적응

Abstract

Under New Liberalism, the opening-door, and globalization, recently personnel resources are shifting on the global scale. As the result of political and economical crises in Latin America these days, many Latin Americans emigrate into another countries and return home. However, the problem caused by globalization and deterritorialization is not limited to Latin Americans. In search of a new life supported by the opening-door policy, Koreans emigrated into Latin America. On the reverse, Korean emigrants into Latin America came back to Korea. On the other hand, the phenomenon of personnel resources movement in the region is conspicuous. The Korean living in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina leave the country where they started a new life. Especially, Argentina's economic default influences Korean immigrants in Argentina to emigrate into Mexico. Up to now, the Korean community, though small in number, has increased bigger extensively because of new immigrants from Korea and other Latin American countries. However, as many Koreans immigrated into Mexico and the Korean community has grown larger suddenly in a short period of time, there have been much confrontation with Mexicans, and conflicts and disharmony among the Korean community. It is not desirable that these phenomena hurt each Korean immigrant, the Korean community, and the image of Korea. This paper puts it focus on the point discussed so far, examines the current situation of the Korean community in the case of Mexico since the 1990s, explores the desirable immigration and settlement, Koreans' entry into the main stream of the Mexican society and the directions of their further development.