Contested Embrace : Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea / Jaeeun Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Jaeeun, Author.

Series:

Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnationalism--Political aspects--Korea--History--20th century.

Transnationalism.

Korean diaspora--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Korean diaspora.

Koreans--Japan--History--20th century.

Koreans.

Koreans--China--History--20th century.

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

Korea.

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

Japan.

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

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

introduction. Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Transborder Ties

One. Engaging Colonial Subjects on the Move

Two. “Who Owns the Nation?”

Three. Beyond “Bamboo Curtain” and “Hermit Kingdom”

Four. Reluctant Embrace and Struggles for Inclusion

Conclusion. Ethnic Nationalism, Globalization, and the Future of Transborder Membership Politics

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804799614

080479961X

OCLC:

1178768869