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Migrant-Background Residents as Transnational Civic Subjects: A Comparative Study of Multicultural Education Policies in South Korea and the UK

  • International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL)
  • Abbr : IGLL
  • 2025, 21(21), pp.234~245
  • Publisher : Glocal Institute of Language and Literary Studies(GILLS)
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : November 20, 2025
  • Accepted : December 15, 2025
  • Published : December 31, 2025

Yi Jae Eun 1

1우송대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study emphasizes that recent multicultural education policies aim at global citizenship education. In particular, Korea and the United Kingdom are implementing global citizenship education grounded in inclusion and equality. The global citizenship education pursued in these two countries reframes migrant-background residents within the paradigm of transnational citizen-subjects. Since 2015, Korea has adopted global citizenship education in line with global indicators and is currently implementing it actively in school settings. The United Kingdom, where multiculturalism has long been established, is likewise increasingly reflecting the values of pluralism rooted in equality and coexistence within its multicultural policies. Global citizenship education in Korea and the United Kingdom reminds us that all people with migration backgrounds are not “strangers,” but can be understood as “us” in the sense of potential immigrants. The global citizenship education policies of both countries clearly demonstrate that migrants and those with migration backgrounds, as transnational citizen-subjects, are key agents in shaping and integrating multicultural societies.

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