국내 무슬림 이주자들의 생활영역과 초국적 성격 - 서울 이태원 출입 무슬림의 사례

Transnationality and Everyday Life Space of Muslim Migrants in South Korea - Cases of Muslims in Seoul

One of important reasons of argument and conflict concerning international migrant population arises from the pre-supposition that the migrants intend to install, more or less definitively, at the land of their migration. Questions of cultural adaptations, especially for migrants like foreign Muslims, become even uneasier subject surrounding 'national identity' and 'human right of free religion' in the context of South Korea. Increasing studies show, nevertheless, that today's migrants manage their life of migration not as candidates of 'naturalization' in the land of their migration, but as active actors in the area of 'in between' of different nation-state arena. The concept of 'transnational social field' emerges, in the result, an alternative model of perception for a better analysis of situation. This study tries to understand the characteristics of 'transnationality' in everyday life spaces of foreign Muslim migrants in South Korea. Analysis of selected individuals' detailed cases here is expected to shed the light on the more flexible and active composition of transnational social field with which Muslim migrants of Korea who try to take out the maximum of benefit from their strategy of international migration.