Recently Korea is becoming multicultral society due to the rapid increase of international marriage and foreign workers mainly from Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, and Pakistan.
Thus multicultral households are increasing and so does the numbe...
Recently Korea is becoming multicultral society due to the rapid increase of international marriage and foreign workers mainly from Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, and Pakistan.
Thus multicultral households are increasing and so does the number of multicultral adolescents.
According to the statistics of multicultral youth aggregated in 2012, the numbers of multicultral youths attending 11,390 schools in Korea such as elementary, middle, high school and alternative school are 46,954. The statistics show that while common youth population is diminishing, multicultural youth population is increasing.
Multicultral youth is a person who was born in a household of a foreign parent or in that of foreign parents.
Due to the difference of appearance, language and culture, multicultural youths tend to experience various conflicts and frequently commit misdeeds.
Misdeed of multicultural youth have possibilities to evolve to serious social problems because it has common teenage misdeeds with increasing misdeeds having multicultural characteristics.
Notwithstanding, organizations in charge of multicultural youth have nearly any data regarding multicultural youths’ misdeed, except only beginning to conduct an official statistics in October of 2012.
So, to figure out the problems of multicultural youth, there is no direct materials like official statistics measuring multicultral youths’ misdeed. We should check indirect materials like the rate of school alienating of multicultural youth to measure misdeeds of multicultural youth.
The results are as follows: 6,089 children which are 25% of 24,867 students gave up schools.
Therefore, multicultural youths cannot get normal education and have difficulties in adapting and have high probabilities to misdeed.
The cause of bigger influence of environmental factor of multicultural family than that of common family is related to the difference of body and appearance.
Because of physical difference, they have possibilities to be the targets of banter and assault.
So the relationship with their parents rather than friends has more to do with their misdeeds. Therefore multicultural youths are getting to have difficulties in relationship with friends and society.
They are becoming to be alone and have more chances to be close to misdeed.
So I can conclude that environmental factors of multicultural family play the biggest role in their misdeed.
Even before adapting to Korean society they bore their children and raise them. They face many challenges as first rearers with problems in adapting period.
Thus, it is assumed that environmental factor of multicultural family plays a big role, but it is not known which factor influnces on misdeed, how much influnce it has, how it is different from that of common youth.
In this study, I want to look into the influence of enviornmental factor of multicultural family and common family on misdeed.
I also wanted to look for preventive measures. Related advanced research was conducted with quantitative resolution by surveys at the same time. Surveys were conducted with multicultural youth. Analizing data through cross over analysis and regression analysis I checked the influence of environmental factors of multicultural family on misdeed and compared them with those of common youth.
Based on the results of analysis of how multicultural family factors influence on misdeed of its youth, I’d like to look for misdeed preventive measures as multicultural family policy and muticultural youth policy separately.
Prior to check the influence of environmental factor of family on misdeed, look into the difference of misdeed between multicultural youth and common youth.
First, in case of status misdeed, smoking experience; multicultural youth was 30.2% which is lower than 37.8% of common youth. In drinking experience, while multicultural youth was 26.4% common youth was 44.1% which is twice higher than multicultural youth.
Second, in case of escape misdeed, while the rate of experiencing runaway of multicultural youth is only 8.5%, that of common youth is 28.8%. It shows that common youth is experiencing more runaway than multicultral youth.
The rate of AWOL in school multicultral youth was 21.7%, but that of common youth was 43.2%.
Third, in case of violence while the rate of experiencing fight of multicultural youth was 44.3%, that of common youth was 34.2%.
It shows that the frequency of experiencing fight of multicultural youth is much higher.
While the rate of experiencing outcasting was only 21.7%, that of common youth was 38.7%.
It shows that common youths are doing more outcasting.
Fourth, in case of property misdeed, the rate of taking by force of multicultural youth was 24.8%, but that of common youth was 21.6%. It shows that multicultural youths’ taking by force happened more.
In case of stealing, 57.4% of multicultural youth experienced stealing. It shows high level of their experiencing stealing while that of common youth was 30.6%.
For the influence of environmental characteristics of multicultural youth, I divided them into two; structural characteristic and functional characteristic and checked how they work.
First, in case of structural characteristic of family, there was no variable which played meaningful role in status misdeed, but in case of escape, socio-economic status of parents had meaningful impact. In case of violence misdeed, broken family influenced negatively. in case of property misdeed, socio-economic status of parents influenced negatively.
After checking influence of functional characteristics of multicultural youth have on misdemeanour, I came to know that there was no influence in status misdeed.
In case of escape misdeed, the level of Korean language and understanding Korean culture of parents had meaningful negative influence.
In case of violence misdeed and property misdeed, the way of bringing-up and level of Korean and understanding Korean culture of parents had a meaningful negative influence.
To find out the most influential factors among environmental factors of families of both multicultural and common youths and compare them, I studied through hierarchical regression analysis. The result was that there was no meaningful influence in status misdemeanour both in common youth and multicultural youth.
In case of environmental factor of multicultural family influencing escape misdeed, the order of infuluence was the atmosphere of home, relationship with parents, the level of Korean and understanding Korean culture.
As for common youth, only the level of parents’ understanding of teenagers’ language and culture had meaningful influence. In case of escape misdeed, environmental factors of multicultural youth influenced variously compared to those of common youth. Environmental factors influencing violence misdeed were parents’ level of Korean and understanding Korean culture.
As for common youth, there were more influence factors besides the relationship with parents, parents’ way of bringing-up, parents’ level of understanding teenagers’ language and culture than multicultural youth.
Environmental factors infulencing property misdeed had influences in order of loss of family members, parents’ way of bringing-up, parents’ level of Korean and understanding Korean culture, but in case of common youth, there was no variable which had influence.
On the basis of environmental factors influencing misdeed of multicultural youth, I proposed misdeed preventive measures dividing into multicultural family policy and multicultural adolescents policy.
First, for multicultural family policy, it is necessary to have a professional program for education of Korean language and culture for parents.
As this study shows, the lower the level of parents’ Korean and understanding Korean culture the more misdeeds happened. We should provide professional programs for Korean and understanding Korean culture to parents.
Second, it is necessary to build a support system to ensure socio-economic status of multicultural family. Their socio-economic position in Korea is poor compared to that of common fammilies. Parents’ time with their youths is deficient. So they came to be exposed to misdeed frequently. To fix it, we should increase social welfare policy.
Third, it is necessary to reduce the differences among cultures. In multicultural families, home violences happen frequently due to cultural differences. We should develop programs for preventing home violence and collision from cultural differences and adapt them.
Fouth, to prevent home violence we should make most of police. There can be tough situations for police to intervene home violence because of language and cultural barriers. To solve it, we should place police women in chare of migration women, and place professional policemen for home violence in the area of external affairs. Thus we should prevent misdeed of multucultural youth by home violence.
For preventive measures for misdeed of multicultural youth, first, to enforce afterschool activities for multicultural youth.
Due to the low socio-economic position of multicultural youth, parents’ time spending with their children is lower than ordinary homes. To prevent misdeed of multicultural youth, after school activities have to be intensified.
Second, special education of Korean and culture is necessary. As Multicultural youth is not familiar with Korean culture, they tend to be mal-adjusting and underachieving attending school because they have foreign parent(s).
Fourth, activities of policemen should be enforced to prevent misdeed of multicultural youth. To prevent misdeed, professional policemen should be placed and utilized. When the misdeed of muticultural youth happened and punished, environmental factors should be in consideration and 4D policy because environmental factors have impact on second conviction.
As this study shows, environmental factors of family have much impact on the misdeed of multicultural youth. Especially those factors played differently as to the kinds of misdeed.
As we concerned in advanced study and other studies, multicultural parents’ Korean and understanding culture have much impact. So we can see that not only multicultural youth but also multicultural families need activities to prevent misdeeds