Homing : : An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration / / Ji-Yeon O. Jo.

Millions of ethnic Koreans have been driven from the Korean Peninsula over the course of the region's modern history. Emigration was often the personal choice of migrants hoping to escape economic and political hardship, but it was also enforced or encouraged by governmental relocation and migr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes to the Reader
  • Introduction: Legacy Migration, Transborder Belongings, and Korean Peoplehood
  • Part I. Histories and Memories
  • Chapter 1. Koreans in China
  • Chapter 2. Koreans in the Commonwealth of Independent States
  • Chapter 3. Koreans in the United States
  • Part II. The Odyssey of Homing
  • Chapter 4. Contouring Social Spaces Legacy Migrants and South Korean Society
  • Chapter 5. Enterprising State and Entrepreneurial Self Contested Citizenship in Neoliberal South Korea
  • Chapter 6. Shifting Affective Linguascapes: Languages, Nations, and Migration
  • Chapter 7. Negotiating Transborder Kinship: Family, Market, And Migration
  • Conclusion: The Politics of Affect and Transborder Belongings
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author