@article{ART003397257},
author={Soojung Lee},
title={Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category},
journal={The Journal of Multicultural Society},
issn={2005-2553},
year={2026},
volume={19},
number={3},
pages={307-342},
doi={10.14431/jms.2026.10.19.3.307}
TY - JOUR
AU - Soojung Lee
TI - Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category
JO - The Journal of Multicultural Society
PY - 2026
VL - 19
IS - 3
PB - Research Institute of Asian Women
SP - 307
EP - 342
SN - 2005-2553
AB - This article proposes studying the South Korean-born children of North Korean migrants through the analytic category of the ‘second generation’. Policy and research on the children of North Korean migrants have developed around entry, settlement, and school adjustment, while research treating South Korean-born children as a distinct population has long been limited. Recent educational administrative statistics and surveys have made this population more visible, yet there has been little discussion of the perspective from which they should be studied. The article reviews how policy and research categories have changed and, drawing on international second-generation research and Korean scholarship on migration under national division, raises four questions: how parents’ settlement conditions are carried over and transformed in the next generation; when a parent’s North Korean origin becomes the child’s own background; how restrictions on contact with North Korea shape each generation’s relationships with the parental homeland and relatives; and how children relate to their parents’ pasts, which they have not experienced themselves. ‘Second generation’ is used here not as a label that defines who these children are, but as an analytic category for examining intergenerational relations and change. This perspective extends the scope of research beyond school age and asks anew what ‘migration background’ means under the conditions of national division.
KW - second generation of North Korean migrants;South Korean-born children;migration under national division; intergenerational change;migration background
DO - 10.14431/jms.2026.10.19.3.307
ER -
Soojung Lee. (2026). Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category. The Journal of Multicultural Society, 19(3), 307-342.
Soojung Lee. 2026, "Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category", The Journal of Multicultural Society, vol.19, no.3 pp.307-342. Available from: doi:10.14431/jms.2026.10.19.3.307
Soojung Lee "Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category" The Journal of Multicultural Society 19.3 pp.307-342 (2026) : 307.
Soojung Lee. Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category. 2026; 19(3), 307-342. Available from: doi:10.14431/jms.2026.10.19.3.307
Soojung Lee. "Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category" The Journal of Multicultural Society 19, no.3 (2026) : 307-342.doi: 10.14431/jms.2026.10.19.3.307
Soojung Lee. Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category. The Journal of Multicultural Society, 19(3), 307-342. doi: 10.14431/jms.2026.10.19.3.307
Soojung Lee. Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category. The Journal of Multicultural Society. 2026; 19(3) 307-342. doi: 10.14431/jms.2026.10.19.3.307
Soojung Lee. Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category. 2026; 19(3), 307-342. Available from: doi:10.14431/jms.2026.10.19.3.307
Soojung Lee. "Toward Research on the South Korean-Born Children of North Korean Migrants: ‘Second Generation’ as an Analytic Category" The Journal of Multicultural Society 19, no.3 (2026) : 307-342.doi: 10.14431/jms.2026.10.19.3.307
