This book aims to capture the complicated development of Korea from monoethnic to multicultural society, challenging the narrative of -ethnonational continuity- in Korea through a discursive institutional approach.
At a time when immigration is changing the face of South Korea and an increasingly diverse society becomes empirical fact, this doesn-t necessarily mean that multiculturalism has been embraced as a normative, policy-based response to that fact. The approach here diverges from existing academic analyses, which tend to conclude that core institutions defining Korea-s immigration and nationality regimes-nd which, crucially, also reflect a basic and hitherto unyielding commitment to racial and ethnic homogeneity-ill remain largely unaffected by increasing diversity. Here, this title underscores the critical importance of -discursive agency- as a necessary corrective to still dominant power and interestbased arguments. In addition, -discursive agents- are found to play a
