환영받지 못하는 천국의 시민: 미국 내 인도네시아 미등록 이주민들의 체험된 경험으로서의 ‘불법성'
“Unwelcomed Citizens of Heaven”: ‘Illegality' as Lived-Experience among Indonesian Undocumented Migrants in the U.S.
- 발행
- 2012
- 소속·발행
- 서울대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- UCI
- G704+INS000003034-ART001684342
- 원문등록
- 2012-08-01
- 원문
- 원문 보기 ↗
개념
키워드
불법성, 미등록 이주민, 체험적 경험, 종교, 정체성, 인도네시아, illegality, undocumented migrants, lived-experience, religion, identity, Indonesia
초록
This paper explores how Indonesian undocumented migrants in an East Coast city of the United States experience and express their ‘illegality’ due to their unauthorized or not-yet-authorized movement. More specifically, it explores ‘illegality’ as a phenomenological mode of ‘being-in-the world,’ by focusing on Indonesian migrants'embodied and subjective daily experiences. My analysis of the Indonesian migrants' daily experiences of ‘illegality’ reveals how their macro-level legal and social conditions intersect with their individual and micro-level daily lives through their embodied and subjective experiences. Against the backdrop of the dominant discourses in the United States that racially ‘other’ and ‘criminalize’undocumented migrant workers, the Indonesian migrants experience their unwelcomed presence in the host country through 1) their racial differences and health concerns, 2) subjective experiences of divided space between ‘dangerous’ and ‘safe’ places, 3) experiences of timely borders and limits set by the host country. Of particular interest are the roles of religion and religious discourses in mediating between the lived-experience of ‘illegality’ and their new identitie