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(21-11) National unity : A preliminary review to form a social citizenship-centered agenda

Date : 2021-12-31 item : Research Report 20-11 P.I : Park Sang-hoon

(21-11) National unity : A preliminary review to form a social citizenship-centered agenda

The purpose of this report is to explore the tasks associated with national unity and social cohesion by focusing on the high rates of suicide and workplace fatalities in our society. National unity can be addressed from the perspective of political citizenship, but this report is characterized by its approach to social citizenship. Achieving social citizenship should be the goal of national unity; however, as a group that is not focused on this aim, we are trying to look at the agenda of national unity from the perspective of people who have died by suicide or those who are the victims of industrial accidents. Those who have died by suicide are those who have abandoned their status as citizens without saying a word. People who have been victims of industrial accidents are thought to have abandoned their right to work without dying. If their stories are worth exploring to help inform the future of our society, then the findings are expected to expand into research on the poor elderly, those who are living with disabilities, North Korean defectors, and migrants who have moved far away and cannot care for their families and local communities.