오렌지카운티의 새로운 소수자들: 삶의 공간과 재영토화

Abstract

This study compares and analyzes the ethnic enclaves of Orange County in California and examines the characteristics of the recent migrant minorities, their life spaces and forms of re-territorialization. I have conceptualized those who migrate with enough economic and educational assets as new minorities to distinguish them from existing migrant minorities. How Irvines new minorities differ from other ethnic enclaves in the character of spatial formation and re-territorialization is also analyzed. Irvine is an open space. It is not a closed or isolated space bordered by ethnic groups. Thus, there is a high possibility of it developing into a space where the minority, the majority, and minority groups can communicate with each other; however, new minorities in Irvine still have limitations. So it is necessary to study in depth how new minorities practice re-territorialization, realize the politics of recognition, and pursue competition and success in their life-world and life space.