Contested Embrace
eBook - ePub

Contested Embrace

Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Contested Embrace

Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea

About this book

Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and diasporas. Specifically, Jaeeun Kim analyzes disputes over the belonging of Koreans in Japan and China, focusing on their contested relationship with the colonial and postcolonial states in the Korean peninsula.

Extending the constructivist approach to nationalisms and the culturalist view of the modern state to a transnational context, Contested Embrace illuminates the political and bureaucratic construction of ethno-national populations beyond the territorial boundary of the state. Through a comparative analysis of transborder membership politics in the colonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods, the book shows how the configuration of geopolitics, bureaucratic techniques, and actors' agency shapes the making, unmaking, and remaking of transborder ties. Kim demonstrates that being a "homeland" state or a member of the "transborder nation" is a precarious, arduous, and revocable political achievement.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Transborder Ties
  10. 1. Engaging Colonial Subjects on the Move: Colonial State, Migration, and Diasporic Nationhood
  11. 2. “Who Owns the Nation?” Cold War Competition over Zainichi Koreans in Japan
  12. 3. Beyond “Bamboo Curtain” and “Hermit Kingdom”: Korean Chinese between Two Socialist Fatherlands
  13. 4. Reluctant Embrace and Struggles for Inclusion: Korean Chinese “Return” Migration to Post–Cold War South Korea
  14. Conclusion: Ethnic Nationalism, Globalization, and the Future of Transborder Membership Politics
  15. Appendix: Archival and Ethnographic Data
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Series List