In this dissertation, I examine the particular diaspora construction of the overseas Chinese in South Korea focusing on their educational practice, and looking at how it relates to and reflects their identities and subjectivities. The Chinese in Korea, or Korean huaqiaos, have no parallel in that they still retain Chinese (Taiwanese) nationality despite their over one hundred years of settlement in Korea, and in that most opt for full-time Chinese ethnic schooling with exclusively Taiwanese-administered curriculum and support. Different from the previous discussions arguing the nation-making role of the state-sponsored mass education through transmitting national culture and language, in a Chinese high school in Seoul, Korea, I observed that ethnic schooling worked to connect the scattering Chinese in Korea as a community by letting them share similar social, legal, and cultural conditions. Drawing on school documents, student writings, and interviews and discussions with ethnic Chinese students, teachers, parents, and related organization leaders, I elucidate the role of their ethnic education which is transforming as a strategy to deal with one of the most brutal social qualification-college entrance- in Korean society, and as a symbol through which they can remain Chinese diasporans. Students’ indifference to their schoolwork seems to defeat expectations of Chinese heritage transmission, or the making of allies for the ROC. This situation results from changes derived from the Taiwanese political changes against them, and also from the conviction passed down over generations about the futility of hard work due to their minority situation in Korea. Even being aware of their ethnic schools’ failure to properly educate their children in Chinese language and culture, almost all Korean huaqiaos keep sending their children there, unable to resist the immediate admissions advantage foreign high school graduates gain in entering Korean universities, and not wishing to be excluded from their own ethnic community by not attending the same ethnic schools. The way Korean huaqiaos deal with their ethnic education is a typical example revealing their collective characteristics they themselves talked about – “opportunistic”, “gossip-bound”, or “not stepping forward to act” - and I analyzed these self-defined particular Chineseness has been formed while they have gone through continuous unsteady socio-political processes. Through chapters that provide analyses of the historical Korea-China relationship, the context in which Chinese came to settle in Korea, and the ever-changing three-way relationship among Korea, Taiwan and mainland China, I discuss how Korean huaqiaos have formed and transformed their nationality, emotional and cultural belonging, and their unstable legal and social statuses as non-local nationals. This study on the atypical results of Chinese border-crossing and of ethnic education is based on three years of ethnographic field research in the Seoul Chinese High School and in other various social and cultural arenas of the Chinese community in Korea. And it offers a contextualized study of Chinese diaspora which contributes to debunking a generalized and reified imaginary of Chinese, and an ethnographic account of diaspora educational practice which also calls for a new concept of citizenship in this ever-globalizing era. / Anthropology

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Ramos Sales.pdf: 1449801 bytes, checksum: f2dcfa07e71065d9b34dad13acf19001 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation is part of the concerns about racism forms and the historical resistance of the black population, to fighting against this phenomenon allows us to understand and formulate one of black identities in Brazil. To this end, the relations of power established between the different ethnic groups set up one of the strands to this analysis proposed by this work. We seek to understand the demonstrations and dissemination of black thought, the early twentieth century, through one of the instruments of this group, the Imprensa Negra Paulista. From our analysis, we identified two inherent aspects in the project of this press release: education and the fight against racism. However, the concept of education that black leadership, which was formed from the black press, demonstrated to be wide, while defending schooling at certain times, has generated non schooled actions that promoted equal education in others. It was precisely this expanded vision of education that allowed promote the combat against racism using the same weapon of the white people: the education. It is from these two aspects of the Imprensa Negra Paulista project that this work aims to contribute to the studies about race and ethnic issues of combating racism by black population / A presente dissertação faz parte das inquietações em relação às formas de racismo e a resistência histórica da população negra que, ao combater tal fenômeno, nos permite compreender e formular uma das identidades negras no Brasil. Para tal, as relações de poder estabelecidas entre os diferentes grupos étnicos configura uma das vertentes para a análise proposta por este trabalho. Buscamos compreender as manifestações e divulgação do pensamento negro, do início do século XX, através de um dos instrumentos deste agrupamento, a Imprensa Negra Paulista. A partir de nossa análise, identificamos dois aspectos intrínsecos no projeto desta imprensa: a educação e o combate ao racismo. No entanto, a concepção de educação dessa liderança negra, que formou-se a partir da imprensa negra, mostrou-se ampla, ao mesmo tempo que defendia a escolarização em determinados momentos, gerava ações não escolarizadas que promoviam igual educação em outros. Foi justamente essa concepção ampliada de educação que permitiu promover um combate ao racismo utilizando-se da mesma arma dos brancos: a instrução. É a partir destes dois aspectos do projeto da Imprensa Negra Paulista que este trabalho pretende contribuir com os estudos acerca das questões étnico raciais e do combate ao racismo pela população negra

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:55:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Ramos Sales.pdf: 1449801 bytes, checksum: f2dcfa07e71065d9b34dad13acf19001 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation is part of the concerns about racism forms and the historical resistance of the black population, to fighting against this phenomenon allows us to understand and formulate one of black identities in Brazil. To this end, the relations of power established between the different ethnic groups set up one of the strands to this analysis proposed by this work. We seek to understand the demonstrations and dissemination of black thought, the early twentieth century, through one of the instruments of this group, the Imprensa Negra Paulista. From our analysis, we identified two inherent aspects in the project of this press release: education and the fight against racism. However, the concept of education that black leadership, which was formed from the black press, demonstrated to be wide, while defending schooling at certain times, has generated non schooled actions that promoted equal education in others. It was precisely this expanded vision of education that allowed promote the combat against racism using the same weapon of the white people: the education. It is from these two aspects of the Imprensa Negra Paulista project that this work aims to contribute to the studies about race and ethnic issues of combating racism by black population / A presente dissertação faz parte das inquietações em relação às formas de racismo e a resistência histórica da população negra que, ao combater tal fenômeno, nos permite compreender e formular uma das identidades negras no Brasil. Para tal, as relações de poder estabelecidas entre os diferentes grupos étnicos configura uma das vertentes para a análise proposta por este trabalho. Buscamos compreender as manifestações e divulgação do pensamento negro, do início do século XX, através de um dos instrumentos deste agrupamento, a Imprensa Negra Paulista. A partir de nossa análise, identificamos dois aspectos intrínsecos no projeto desta imprensa: a educação e o combate ao racismo. No entanto, a concepção de educação dessa liderança negra, que formou-se a partir da imprensa negra, mostrou-se ampla, ao mesmo tempo que defendia a escolarização em determinados momentos, gerava ações não escolarizadas que promoviam igual educação em outros. Foi justamente essa concepção ampliada de educação que permitiu promover um combate ao racismo utilizando-se da mesma arma dos brancos: a instrução. É a partir destes dois aspectos do projeto da Imprensa Negra Paulista que este trabalho pretende contribuir com os estudos acerca das questões étnico raciais e do combate ao racismo pela população negra