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Author Kwon, June Hee, 1974- author.

Title Borderland dreams : the transnational lives of Korean Chinese workers / June Hee Kwon
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Ethnic borderland -- The un/welcome homeland -- Rhythms of "free" movement -- The work of waiting -- The leaving and the living -- Break the cycle!
Summary "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 Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian 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 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 of 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Koreans -- China -- Yanbian Chaoxianzu Zizhizhou -- History
Foreign workers -- Korea (South) -- Social conditions
Borderlands -- China -- History
Borderlands -- Korea (South) -- History
Group identity -- China -- Yanbian Chaoxianzu Zizhizhou
Korean diaspora.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Borderlands
Emigration and immigration
Foreign workers -- Social conditions
Group identity
Korean diaspora
Koreans
SUBJECT Yanbian Chaoxianzu Zizhizhou (China) -- Emigration and immigration
Korea (South) -- Emigration and immigration
Subject China
China -- Yanbian Chaoxianzu Zizhizhou
Korea (South)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023001614
ISBN 1478027460
9781478027461