A transnational application of critical race theory: schooling experiences of multicultural students in South Korea

ABSTRACT Utilizing Critical Race Theory (CRT), this study conducted a systemic review of scholarship on the schooling experiences of racial/ethnic minority students called multicultural students in South Korea. For the current analysis, CRT helped illuminate racism and other intersecting forms of structural issues that shape multicultural students’ experiences, which tend to be obfuscated in the dominant multicultural education discourse in Korea. In doing so, this study helped acknowledge the structural embeddedness of multicultural students’ experiences with discrimination and stigma and race/ethnicity as a marginalizing factor in the Korean education system. In addition to providing local implications, the current study seeks to expand the transnational application of CRT in education by examining racial injustice in Korean society that has received little attention in the CRT scholarship.