June Hee Kwon

Borderland Dreams

The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers

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Produktbeschreibung

In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the "Korean dream" that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China to South Korea since the early 1990s. Charting the interplay of bodies, money, and time, the ethnography reveals how these migrant workers, in the course of pursuing their borderland dreams, are transformed into a transnational ethnicized class. Kwon analyzes the persistent desire of Korean Chinese to "leave to live better" at the intersection between the neoliberalizing regimes of post-socialist China and post-Cold War South Korea. Scrutinizing the tensions and affinities among the Korean Chinese, North and South Koreans, and Han Chinese whose lives intertwine in the borderland, Kwon captures the diverse and multifaceted aspirations of Korean Chinese workers caught between the ascendant Chinese dream and the waning Korean dream.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020516
• ISBN-10: 1478020512
• Artikelnr.: 67485385

Autorenporträt

June Hee Kwon

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Winds of Migration  1
Part I: The Rising Korean Dream
1. Ethnic Borderland  29
2. The Un/Welcoming Homeland  52
Part II: Dreams in Flux
3. Rhythms of “Free” Movement  77
4. The Work of Waiting  100
Part III: Dreaming Anew
5. The Leaving and the Living  123
6. Break the Cycle!  150
Conclusion. The Afterlife of the Korean Dream  177
Notes  187
References  213
Index  231