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A Study on Changes in Perception toward Multicultural Families and Support Measures in the COVID-19 Era

  • Multi-cultural Society and Education Studies
  • 2021, 8(), pp.29-57
  • DOI : 10.22957/mses.8..202108.29
  • Publisher : Institute for multicultural studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : July 1, 2021
  • Accepted : August 18, 2021
  • Published : August 30, 2021

Junsung Ki 1 Kim, min-su 2 Choi, min-ji 2

1디지털서울문화예술대학교
2상명대학교 국제언어문화교육원

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Under the COVID-19 pandemic, this study explored the changes in perception toward multicultural families through big-data analytics of news articles. On the basis of the findings, it discussed policy support measures that would help members of multicultural families. This study was based on online news articles to analyze the perceptual changes toward multicultural families during the COVID-19 era and employed a news big-data analysis system called “BIGKinds” to collect news articles. As a search term, “multicultural family” was used, and online news articles published between 2019 and 2020 were collected to compare before and after the pandemic. The analysis of related keywords to “multicultural families” that appeared in the 2020 news articles revealed that negative related keywords have increased compared to those published in 2019, the pre-pandemic period. On the basis of such results, this study suggested several support measures for multicultural families in the era of the pandemic as follows. First, it is important to provide psychological and emotional support for these families. Second, it is necessary to recognize the flaws in news reports on multicultural families and to remedy the situation. Third, it is required to establish social networks centered on areas where multicultural families reside, which can lead to a high level of awareness of disaster-related public services.

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