Contested Identity and Prejudice Against Co-Ethnic Refugees
Evidence From South Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jae Yeon Kim (0000-0002-6533-7910, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltmore, MD, USA, corresponding author), Taeku Lee (0000-0002-5143-7654, Harvard University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1433-1444 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10659129221144248 |
| OpenAlex | W4311213065 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 57 |
Although North Korean refugees are co-ethnics and receive extensive government support, many reports have alleged that they are discriminated against in South Korea. We theorize that this outcome is due to the contested status of North Korean refugees’ co-ethnic identity. We test this with embedded list experiments on an approximately nationally representative sample of South Koreans (n = 1418). We find that (1) South Koreans hold prejudice against North Korean refugees primarily because they believe supporting these refugees would waste government resources; (2) liberals are more likely to disagree with this belief while conservatives are ambivalent, and (3) income predicts this belief better than partisanship or ideology. Scholars have focused on native-refugee conflict cases where ethnic identity is a faultline. However, the South Korean case shows that co-ethnic refugees could be unwelcomed in a host society if political and economic factors make their co-ethnic status contested
Ambivalence · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics · Identity (music · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term · Refugee · Sociology · Gender Studies · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |