Diaspora without homeland
Subtitle: being Korean in Japan
By: edited by Sonia Ryang and John Lie.
Contributors: Ryang, Sonia.; Lie, John.
Series: Global, area, and international archive -- 8
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780520098633
Subjects: Koreans -- Japan -- Social conditions; Japan -- Ethnic relations; Marginality, Social -- Japan
Description: "More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today - the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated history, identity, and status of the Korean minority in Japan. An international group of scholars explores commonalities and contradictions in the Korean diasporic experience, touching on such issues as citizenship and belonging, the personal and the political, and homeland and hostland."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.