1st Edition
Displacement, Mobility, and Diversity in Korea Diaspora Within Homeland
This book examines the transformation and the dynamic reconfiguration of borders within Korea through inter/trans-disciplinary approaches.
The book offers a comprehensive synthesis for the changing geo-political, cultural, and economic dynamics among Korea’s diasporas by applying the theme of “diasporas within homeland” as a theoretical lens. While diaspora remains a central theoretical perspective (often highlighting “out of home” experiences), the volume turns its gaze inward, “within homeland,” to trace internal displacement, mobility, and diversity in Korea. In addition, this volume brings diverse scholarly traditions, which bridge diaspora with wide ranges of theoretical lenses and methodological approaches, such as intercultural sensitivity and adaptation, acculturation, ideology critique, alienation, national memory, and postcolonialism. The book further explores the possibilities of coalition-building between/among diverse communities.
As a study of the notion of Korean identity and citizenship, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Korean society and culture, Asian diasporas, cultural anthropology and ethnicity.
Introduction - Displacement, Mobility, and Diversity in Korea: Diaspora within Homeland
Min Wha Han, Eun-Jeong Han, and JongHwa Lee
Chapter One – Leaving “Home” in Search of the “Homeland”: The Returning Movement of Korean Transnational Adoptees
Sina Lee
Chapter Two – Zainichi Koreans Migration to South Korea and Border Politics
in the Post-Cold War Era
Kyunghee Cho
Chapter Three – South Korean attitudes towards Chosŏnjok migrants as a social response to geopolitical dynamics
HaeRan Shin
Chapter Four – “I can speak zero language”: Discursive construction of bilingualism and Korean returnees in social media
Hakyoon Lee and Ye Lin Park
Chapter Five – Perceptions of South Korea in North Korean refugees’ poetry
Andrii Ryzhkov
Chapter Six – Between Gohyang and Joguk: Representations of Post-repatriation Identities among Returning Zainichi Koreans
Min Wha Han
Chapter Seven – Exploration of the intertwined ethnic and national identity among Ko-Ryo-In in Korea
Eun-Jeong Han
Chapter Eight – Mental Health Correlates Among Married-Based Immigrant Women in South Korea
Hyun-Jin Jun and Boyoung Nam
Chapter Nine – “My community is all around the world”: The role of globalized media in forming imagination, aspiration, and transnational connectivity among marriage immigrant women in South Korea
HaeLim Suh
Chapter Ten – The Price of Conviction: Diversity, Inclusion, and Success as Neoliberal Fantasy in Itaewon Class
Myoung-Sun Song
Chapter Eleven – Do I Belong in Ikseon-dong?: Glocalized Cosmopolitan Spaces of Belonging
Jin R. Choi
Chapter Twelve – Battle for Survival: Multiple Diasporas and Opportunities for Change
JongHwa Lee
Biography
Min Wha Han is Assistant Professor of Communication at West Texas A&M University.
Eun-Jeong Han is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Salisbury University.
JongHwa Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Mass Media at Angelo State University.
