Homing An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration
Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration

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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1. Verfasser: Jo, Ji-Yeon O. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2017]
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HISTORY / Asia / Korea
Korean diaspora > Case studies
Return migrants > Korea (South) > Psychology > Case studies
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Zusammenfassung: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 migration projects in both colonial and postcolonial times. The turning point in South Korea's overall migration trajectory occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the nation's increased economic prosperity and global visibility, along with shifting geopolitical relationships between the First World and Second World, precipitated a migration flow to South Korea. Since the early 1990s, South Korea's foreign-resident population has soared more than 3,000 percent.Homing investigates the experiences of legacy migrants-later-generation diaspora Koreans who "return" to South Korea-from China, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the United States.
Unlike their parents or grandparents, they have no firsthand experience of their ancestral homeland. They inherited an imagined homeland through memories, stories, pictures, and traditions passed down by family and community, or through images disseminated by the media. When diaspora Koreans migrate to South Korea, they confront far more than a new living situation: they must navigate their own shifting emotions as their expectations for their new homeland-and its expectations of them-confront reality. Everyday experiences and social encounters-whether welcoming or humiliating-all contribute to their sense of belonging in the South.Homing addresses some of the most vexing and pressing issues of contemporary transnational migration-citizenship, cultural belonging, language, and family relationships-and highlights their affective dimensions. Using accounts gleaned through interviews, author Ji-Yeon Jo situates migrant experiences within the historical context of each diaspora.
Her book is the first to analyze comparatively the migration experiences of ethnic Koreans from three diverse diaspora, whose presence in South Korea and ongoing relationships with diaspora homelands have challenged and destabilized existing understandings of Korean peoplehood
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (256 pages)
ISBN:9780824872519
DOI:10.1515/9780824872519

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