The aim of this paper is to answer two questions: how North Korean perceptions are formed and changed on living in the Korean government-provided permanent rental housing; and how the neighboring environment around such housing affect the lives of defectors and their adjustment to Korean society. To find answers; the author interviewed residents of these permanent rental housing units and interpreted their narratives in terms of the “neighborhood effect” for a deeper understanding of their experience and ways of thinking.
Narrative inquiry (a qualitative research method) was used as it allows the recording and analysis of North Korean defector testimony about their experiences while living in the permanent rental housing; which is the first place they engage in social interaction in South Korea. Narrative inquiry is a useful way of exploring such experiences of this social minority in South Korea; members of which have the unique status of “refugees”.
This research aims to discover the features of life for North Korean defectors in government-provided housing; including how they perceive their environment and how they interact and respond to it in view of the neighborhood effect.
The neighborhood effect centers on how poverty and abundance are formed in terms of space. To be more specific; it focuses on how the socioeconomic environment of one’s neighborhood; which is the individual’s ecological spatial unit; affects that individual’s behavior and thinking to a greater degree than does their own socioeconomic status.
As many remarks as possible were collected from these North Korean residents to identify both common patterns and unique features of their lives. This paper is comprised of three parts:
Part 1 – Summary of the North Korean defectors’ experience while living in the permanent rental housing (“storytelling”);
Part 2 – An interpretation of this experience in the permanent rental housing by the author that starts with an analysis and presentation of some insight into the narratives. This section tells participants’ stories to understand their experiences and their meaning in context. Therefore; reflections on these stories are given by the author; including on social interaction with South Koreans as individuals and interaction with South Korean society as the member of a group of North Korean defectors in relation to the neighborhood effects.
Part 3 – This section merges the author’s analysis and interpretation with participant narratives to suggest the characteristics of the experience of North Korean defectors in government-provided permanent housing in terms of four mechanisms of the neighborhood effect.
Lastly; this paper suggests the implications of the welfare program for North Korean defectors as a social welfare policy and practice.

"Ⅰ.서론
1.연구의 필요성 및 목적
2.연구 방법 4
3.연구의 범위 및 한계 5
Ⅱ.이론적 배경 7
1.북한이탈주민 거주경험 관련 이론 7
1)근린효과(Neighborhood Effects) 관점 7
2)거주지 분리 (Residential Segregation) 12
3)생태학적 이론과 근린효과 15
2.북한이탈주민 입국 배경 및 현황 17
1)북한이탈주민 입국 배경 18
2)북한이탈주민 입국 현황 19
3.북한이탈주민 주거지원 정책 및 주거 현황 2
1)북한이탈주민 주거지원 정책 2
2)북한이탈주민 주거현황 26
3)영구임대주택 건설배경과 현황 27
4.선행연구 검토 29
1)북한이탈주민에 관한 연구 29
2)근린효과에 대한 연구 3
3)영구임대주택 및 임대주택 거주자와 관련 한 연구 34
Ⅲ.조사 방법 39
1.연구참여자 39
1)연구참여자 및 지역 선정 방법 39
2)연구참여자 특성 40
2.자료 수집 방법 및 절차 43
3.탐구 방법 43
1)내러티브 탐구방법의 개요 43
2)내러티브 탐구의 방법론적 특성 44
3)내러티브 탐구방법의 적용 및 연구자료 분석과정 46
4.연구의 윤리성과 엄격성 5
5.연구자 경험 배경 52
Ⅳ.연구 결과 54
1.북한이탈주민의 영구임대주택 거주 경험에 관한 인식 54
1)공간적 차원 55
2)시간적 차원 63
3)개인적사회적 상호작용 차원 70
2.북한이탈주민의 영구임대주택 거주 경험의 해석 86
1)사회적 상호작용 메커니즘(Social-interactive Mechanisms) 88
2)환경적 메커니즘(Environmental Mechanisms) 9
3)지리적 메커니즘(Geographical Mechanisms) 92
4)제도적 메커니즘(Institutional Mechanisms) 93
Ⅴ.논의 및 함의 96
1.북한이탈주민의 영구임대주택 거주경험의 특징과 그에 따른 논의 96
2.함의 98
Ⅵ.결론 102
참고문헌 105
부록 117
Abstract 121"