Little Syria: Syrian refugees in car town, Korea

Abstract

Due to the Syrian civil war, about 1,100 Syrians have applied for asylum status in Korea, and almost all have obtained humanitarian protection status. Receiving refugees is a relatively new phenomenon in Korean society and many refugees may experience a hostile environment. Although a small number of Koreans show empathy to refugees, the majority have expressed serious security and financial concerns about hosting refugees. This qualitative study therefore looks at Syrian refugees’ sense of belonging in Car Town in Seoul, where approximately 50 Syrians have settled. Through interviews, informal talks, and observations, we investigate Syrians’ everyday lives, and the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in the Korean society and in the local Syrian community. This study offers insights into different elements of belonging and how the politics of belonging and place-belongingness take shape, and in turn impact the sense of belonging of the Syrian refugees in Car Town and in Korea.

Mapping changes in human mobility for dining activities: a perceived risk theory perspective

“…whether the usage occurred within the person’s area of residence or not) over a specific period (from June 2019 to June 2020). Since the number of navigation application users has already exceeded that of built-in car navigation users across sexes and age groups from 2014 in South Korea (Kim, 2022), we expected our data to be useful in showing the movement of the majority of Korean people. The data set included the following information (see Appendix for the data set preview): Trip: date of the trip; User: sex, age and status; and Destination: location (latitude and longitude), category (e.g.…”