한국어 교재에 나타난 여성결혼이민자의 타자성 - 『결혼이민자와 함께하는 한국어』를 중심으로 -

Abstract

As the number of international marriage increases sharply, migrated female emerged as a staple part of our society. Therefore, the difficulty of the female marriage immigrants have about sociocultural adaptation became remarkable social issue, and necessities for social unification and foreigner protection are arising. In this situation, Korean language has an equal effectiveness with their mother language as a language of life rather than just second language. So, this leads to a focal focus on Korean language education, and especially on the role of its base-material, the textbook. However, reminding the textbook not only has function of language acquisition but also includes indigenous culture, ideological connotation and more of the country, text for foreigner needs ti be approached discreetly on its range of leverage because it embedded implicitly with one group's indigenous culture and social operational mechanism at the bottom. Textbooks for female marriage immigrants had been generally reedited from 2010, and made positive changes from skill-integrated text to skill-separated text and from uni-culture to inter-culture, but there was no change on marginalization of migrant women in the aspect of sociocultural area and gender in both texts before reediting and after. This paper, hence, looked into “Korean language with the marriage immigrant”, which was published by the National Institute of the Korean Language, and analyzed ‘otherness of female marriage immigrant’ which is implied in textbook. First, I could figure out migrant women's social status and self-identity through their activity space and interlocutor while analyzing their otherness. Since their activity space is narrow-ranged such as countryside and neighbor area and even worse to house mostly, I found out that they, indeed, was being socially and economically othered in Korean society. Moreover, I witnessed they were left as gendered others as being forced to take patriarchal system repeatedly by their mother-in-law, who is a bearer of Korean culture, and other surroundings. To solve the aforementioned problems, changing perception of the neighbors and surroundings about female married immigrants would be the first and foremost task in the aspect of social safety net. Therefore, if possible, the textbook and continuous program which their husbands, kids, and parents-in-law can participate together and/or their neighbors can associate, need to be developed. In addition, the textbook has to be composed in a way deviating from compelling them to assimilate into unreciprocated Korean culture, but respecting culture and history of other nations, and simultaneously expanding intercultural exchanges. In addition, it is necessary to spread the non- dichotomy gender conception of occupation along with various textbook which enables them to get vocational education for feeling settled, improving their self-esteem, and having stable economic life in Korea. When immigrants of our society secure their economic power through labor and find their social identity with recognition of people nearby by strengthening these practical alternatives, multicultural social integration would be made, and these immigrants' competence would be exhibited its new social power as national competitiveness and assets.