Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2007. / Includes abstract and vita. Translated from Korean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-194).

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2008. / Includes abstract and vita. Translated from Korean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-188).

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2008. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-162).

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2008. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-194).

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2008. / Includes abstract and vita. Translated from Korean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-175).

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2008. / Includes abstract and vita. Translated from Korean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-154).

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2008. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-141).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed May 15, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-239).

This thesis uses the narratives of North Koreans living in South Korea (t'albungmin) to understand how they make sense of their positioning in South Korean society. Based on 21 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Seoul, this study attempts to illuminate the contradictory nature of citizenship for young t'albungmin living under the dictates of neoliberal humanitarian governance in contemporary South Korea. As a result of the specific geopolitical configuration of the Korean peninsula, there are contradictory perceptions of North Koreans as compatriots, victims, and enemies: perceptions both affecting and affected by the role of t'albungmin in South Korea's political economy. I consider citizenship a site of negotiation, influenced by South Korean modes of neoliberal humanitarian governance, which encourage t'albungmin to become autonomous, self-managed subjects at the same time as subjecting them to humanitarian reason which, conversely, rewards passivity and compliance. There is a further contradiction between their automatic entitlement to South Korean citizenship and the neoliberal imperative to demonstrate productivity and deservingness. In light of these contradictory imperatives, perceptions and discourses surrounding issues such as accent, deservingness, and responsibility come to take on significant explanatory power in the lives of young t'albungmin. In this context, South Korean policies and NGOs both discursively and practically construct t'albungmin as different and naturalise them as dependent, with this sense of unequal relations structuring their subsequent relations with South Koreans. I argue that this sense of differentiation reflects a particular mode of governance, which in turn illuminates the workings of citizenship in the South Korean context. I also consider the implications for t'albungmin when supporting them is conceptualised as a humanitarian act. While South Koreans portray their society as a 'community of value' in which t'albungmin are constructed as humanitarian subjects, this thesis illustrates how the narratives of t'albungmin contest this interpretation.

Chaque pays a son propre système d’enquête criminelle, ayant ses propres évolutions historiques et culturelles. Malgré les grands bouleversements de la société coréenne durant le XXe siècle : colonisation japonaise (1910-1945), division entre le nord et le sud du pays (1945), Guerre de Corée (1950-1953), mise en place d’une dictature militaire par un coup d’état(1961-1987), … la Corée est devenu un pays démocratique, continuant encore de nos jours à démocratiser sa société afin de supprimer les reliquats des systèmes passés qui sont toujours présents. L’un des points importants de cette démocratisation est la réforme du système judiciaire, afin de rendre la justice du pays plus juste et redonner confiance au peuple coréen en celle-ci. Pour comprendre la situation actuelle, il est donc nécessaire de présenter l'évolution du système d’enquête criminelle en Corée au cours de son histoire, en particulier la formation historique du parquet et de la police en tant qu’organes d’enquête. Il faut également noter l’importance, pour ce sujet, du droit japonais et du droit français. Ce système coréen d’enquête n’est pas « d’origine » coréenne, mais il s’agit d’un système fortement influencé par les droits de ces deux pays étrangers dans l’histoire juridique. Cependant, il n’est pas possible de trouver une influence directe du droit français dans l’histoire juridique coréenne, car le droit coréen n’a emprunté au droit français que sous l’influence du droit japonais(qui adopta le droit français pour la modernisation du système judiciaire à l’époque Meiji) pendant la colonisation japonaise. Ainsi, on trouve la conception traditionnelle française des institutions dans le système coréen actuel, la centralisation et la hiérarchisation. Si la police et le parquet coréens qui sont les deux organes principaux chargés de s’occuper des affaires criminelle, sont ainsi centralisés, ils ont également des rapports hiérarchisés l’une par rapport à l’autre. / Each Country has its own system of criminal investigation, with its own historical and cultural evolution. Despite major changes in Korean society during the twentieth century such as Japanese colonization (1910-1945), division between the north and south of the country (1945), Korean War (1950-1953), the establishment of a military dictatorship by coup d’état(1961), and so on. Korea became a democratic country, continuing even today to democratize its society to remove remnants of past systems that are always present. One of the important points of this democratization is the reform of the judicial system to make the country more just and restore the confidence of the Korean people in it. To understand the current situation, it is necessary to present the evolution of criminal investigation system in Korea throughout its history, particularly the historical formation of the public prosecutors’ service and the national police as the criminal investigative agencies. Also we have to note the importance, for this subject, of Japanese law and French law, because the Korean criminal investigative system is a system strongly influenced by the judicial system of the both foreign countries. However, it is not possible to find a direct influence of French law in the legal history of Korea because Korean law has just borrowed the institutional concepts from French law under the influence of Japanese law (who had adopted the French law to modernize its judicial system during the Meiji period) during the Japanese colonization. Thus, there are some traditional conceptions of French institution in the current Korean system, centralization and hierarchy. The Korean police and the public prosecutors’ service, which are the two main organizations are responsible for dealing with criminal cases, are centralized and they also have hierarchical relationships between them.