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Contested embrace : transborder membership politics in twentieth-century Korea /

Kim, Jaeeun

Contested embrace : transborder membership politics in twentieth-century Korea / Jaeeun Kim - xv, 340 p. ; 24 cm. - Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center .

Introduction : making, unmaking, and remaking transborder ties -- Engaging colonial subjects on the move : colonial state, migration, and diasporic nationhood -- "Who owns the nation?" : Cold-War competition over Zainichi Koreans in Japan -- Beyond "Bamboo Curtain" and "Hermit Kingdom" : Korean Chinese between two socialist fatherlands -- Reluctant embrace and struggles for inclusion : Korean Chinese "return" migration to post-Cold War South Korea -- Conclusion : ethnic nationalism, globalization, and the future of transborder membership politics.

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Transnationalism--Political aspects--History--Korea--20th century.
Korean diaspora--Political aspects--History--20th century.
Koreans--History--Japan--20th century.


Korea--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

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