Contested embrace
Subtitle: transborder membership politics in twentieth-century Korea
By: Jaeeun Kim
Series: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780804797627
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Transnationalism; Korean diaspora; History; Koreans
Description: Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and diasporas. Specifically, Jaeeun Kim analyzes disputes over the belonging of Koreans in Japan and China, focusing on their contested relationship with the colonial and postcolonial states in the Korean peninsula. Through a comparative analysis of transborder membership politics in the colonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods, the book shows how the configuration of geopolitics, bureaucratic techniques, and actors' agency shapes the making, unmaking, and remaking of transborder ties.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : making, unmaking, and remaking transborder ties; title: Engaging colonial subjects on the move : colonial state, migration, and diasporic nationhood; title: "Who owns the nation?" : Cold-War competition over Zainichi Koreans in Japan; title: Beyond "Bamboo Curtain" and "Hermit Kingdom" : Korean Chinese between two socialist fatherlands; title: Reluctant embrace and struggles for inclusion : Korean Chinese "return" migration to post-Cold War South Korea; title: Conclusion : ethnic nationalism, globalization, and the future of transborder membership politics.