In the case of small and medium sized cities where the housing market is not large and differentiated, the process of forming ethnic residential areas will be different from that of large cities with various sub-housing markets. The formation of ethni...
In the case of small and medium sized cities where the housing market is not large and differentiated, the process of forming ethnic residential areas will be different from that of large cities with various sub-housing markets. The formation of ethnic residential areas may be the result of the interaction of actors on various scales. In order to grasp the formation process of ethnic residential areas in a small and medium sized city, this study tried to analyze from the viewpoint of multi-scale, that is, global, national, regional and local scales. The main results obtained from the analysis are as follows. On the global scale, the rapid increase of migration between countries due to globalization and the uneven global economy; the government's policy to solve the labor shortage of the 3D industries due to the industrial restructuring in the national scale; on a regional scale, the industrial structure of Yeongcheon-si, which is dominated by small manufacturers, was influenced. On the local scale, the selection of foreign migrants, the provision of housing by employers, the lending of financial institutions, and the arrangement of real estate agents can have a profound impact on the formation of ethnic residential areas. In the case study, the role of the real estate agent performing the steering function was detected and the process of purchasing small and medium-sized apartments in the form of dormitories by local SMEs and offering them to foreign workers was unusually captured under the local situation of the housing market where the relatively small size and relatively low-priced housing was provided.