Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration 9780824872519

Millions of ethnic Koreans have been driven from the Korean Peninsula over the course of the region’s modern history. Em

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English Pages 264 Year 2017

Table of contents :
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
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