Jun-Hyung Kim (2016-04), "Immigrants and neighborhood: the relationship between internationals' and nationals' population change," Appraisal Studies, 15(1): 23-37. (in Korean)
Abstract
Recent growth in foreign population may produce new positive or negative impacts in the neighborhood. Based on the hypothesis that these impacts finally bring about the migration of residents, this paper analyzes the relationship of population change between internationals and nationals. The correlation coefficients show that, in general, the increase of internationals is related to that of nationals. This implies that overall immigrants in Korea have not yet produced significant negative effects on the neighborhood. However, the coefficients of subgroup analyses report that there is no statistically significant relationship of population change for foreign workers, students, foreigners with education and training visa or unskilled employment visa, and people from China, Southeast and South Asia region. This means that immigrants who are unprofessional, ethnic or from less developed countries are considered to produce negative effects on their neighborhood. In particular, older residents who are in sixties or seventies are much sensitive to the negative effects of the foreign population.
Keywords
Foreigner; Multicultural Society; Neighborhood Effect; Visa; Foreigner Crime