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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T113000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-economics-of-bloodline-lan
 guage-social-class-and-the-racialization-of-damunhwa-youth-in-south-korea/
SUMMARY:The Economics of Bloodline: Language\, Social Class\, and the Racia
 lization of Damunhwa Youth in South Korea
DESCRIPTION:Since the 2000s\, international marriage migration has unsettle
 d Korea’s self-image as an ethnically homogeneous nation and produced a 
 legally distinct “damunhwa” (multicultural) population whose children 
 remain suspended between inclusion and exclusion (J. Shin\, 2025). Drawing
  on longitudinal ethnographic data with six damunhwa youth (2014-2025)\, t
 his study examines how ideologies of racial and linguistic purity\, rooted
  in Korea’s colonial and Cold War history (G. Shin\, 2006)\, still gover
 n the ways these children are heard and categorized. Using raciolinguistic
  ideology (Flores &amp\; Rosa\, 2015)\, which treats language and racializ
 ed embodiment as co-naturalized\, I show that listening subjects—peers\,
  teachers\, textbooks\, and state programs—perceive appearance and speec
 h through one another. Neither “accentless” Korean nor a Korean-passin
 g appearance secures these youths’ authenticity once maternal heritage s
 urfaces\, while their mothers’ languages signal insufficient assimilatio
 n and claims to prestigious English are dismissed when the speaking body i
 s not White. This co-naturalization runs through social class: a mother’
 s country of origin supplies the idiom in which race is assigned\, such th
 at damunhwa connotes poverty while honhyeol evokes European descent. Parti
 cipants respond by concealing heritage-language proficiency or performing 
 unmarked Koreanness. Korea’s case reveals how racial/ethnic hierarchy ca
 n be enacted by a non-white\, ethnonationalist majority\, complicating the
 ories of race and racism built around whiteness (Ang\, Ho\, &amp\; Yeoh\, 
 2022).
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