ABSTRACT This study investigates how South Korean students perceive migrants by interviewing 21 ethnic Korean adolescents. This study shows the parallel of popular discourse with Korean students’ discourse on migrants. Similar to competing popular discourse, half of the students in this study relied on the humanitarian discourse, depicting migrants as victims, fellow humans, and contributors while another half of the students showed the anti-multicultural discourse, portraying migrants as beneficiaries, competitors, and troublemakers. In contrast to the strong influence of the media on Korean students’ ideas, school learning was the least meaningful source of information when the students learned about migrant-related issues. These findings illustrate the greater influence of societal discourses on students’ understandings of migrants compared to the official school curriculum. This paper suggests that educators need to address prevailing societal discourses surrounding students more directly in the classroom to encourage students to participate in the meaningful conversation about immigration issues.

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受害者或竞争者：韩国学生对移民的竞争理解

摘要 本研究通过采访 21 名朝鲜族青少年来调查韩国学生如何看待移民。这项研究显示了流行话语与韩国学生关于移民的话语之间的平行关系。与竞争性的流行话语类似，本研究中有一半的学生依赖人道主义话语，将移民描述为受害者、人类同胞和贡献者，而另一半学生则表现出反多元文化话语，将移民描述为受益者、竞争者和贡献者。麻烦制造者。与媒体对韩国学生思想的强烈影响相反，当学生了解与移民相关的问题时，学校学习是最没有意义的信息来源。这些发现表明，与官方学校课程相比，社会话语对学生对移民的理解的影响更大。本文建议教育工作者需要在课堂上更直接地解决围绕学生的普遍社会话语，以鼓励学生参与有关移民问题的有意义的对话。