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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the socio-cultural aspects of transnational mobility of the Korean diaspora across the globe, spanning countries such as Japan, the Philippines, Germany, the US, and the UK. The contributors explore gendered migration, social inclusion and exclusion in homeland and hostland, embodied multiple subjectivities and belonging in historical and contemporary contexts, migrants' work and family, ethnic media consumption, information and communication technology (ICT) in transnational mobility, ethnic return migration, and marriage migration. This work is a strong interdisciplinary and trans-regional study, combining various disciplines such as sociology, gender studies, anthropology, history, theater studies, media and communication studies, and Asian studies.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transnational Mobility and Korea Yonson Ahn Part I: Transnational Mobility and Media 1. Media and Transnational Mobility of Korean Women Youna Kim 2. Transnational Journey into Belonging: Korean American Adoptee’s Birth Search in Eric Sharp’s Middle Brother Jieun Lee Part II: Migratory Mobility and Gender 3. Nursing Care in Contact Zones: Korean Healthcare “Guest Workers” in Germany Yonson Ahn 4. Patriarchal Racialization: Gendered and Racialized Integration of Foreign Brides and Foreign Husbands in South Korea Seonok Lee 5. Doing Business in Contemporary Japan: The ‘New’ Wave of Korean Female Immigrants Dukin Lim Part III: Return Migration 6. Living as “Overseas Koreans” in South Korea: Examining the “Differential Inclusion” of Korean American “Returnees” Stephen Cho Suh 7. (Dis-)Connectedness and Identity Negotiation: Lived Experiences of Korean Chinese Students in South Korea Ruixin Wei 8. “Uh… well, we’re… Russians”: Identity and Resistance to Ethnic Hierarchy Among Koryŏ Saram Diasporic Returnees in South Korea Changzoo Song Part IV: Transnational Mobility from a Historical Perspective 9. Korean Immigration to the United States, 1903-1905: A New Look at Japanese Imperialism Wayne Patterson 10. Korean Activists in Tōkyō, The Asia Kunglun, and Asian Solidarity in the early 1920s Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus 11. Between Personal Choice and Social Exclusion: Diaspora Identities of Korean Marriage Migrants of the Korean War Period in the Philippines Minjung Kim Afterword: Transnationalism Studies and its Challenges: The View from Asia Brenda S.A. Yeoh
