Akwi Seo
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824866693
- eISBN:
- 9780824876937
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824866693.003.0014
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
The issue of “comfort women” urged a self-revision of Japanese women’s movements in the 1990s from “victim” to “assailant,” from monolith to multiplicity, revealing a legacy of colonialism and racism ...
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The issue of “comfort women” urged a self-revision of Japanese women’s movements in the 1990s from “victim” to “assailant,” from monolith to multiplicity, revealing a legacy of colonialism and racism within Japanese feminism. A group of women of Korean origin played a significant role in advancing the redress movement in Japan. Korean Women’s Network on the Comfort Women Issue (JŪgun Ianfu Mondai Uri Yoson Nettowāku) emerged as the first grassroots movement that drew attention to multiple forms of oppression and the specific identity and positioning of Korean women in Japan. Through this movement, Yeoseong Network criticized their marginalization and invisibility in Japanese society as well as the sexism in the ethnic Korean community. Bridging women’s movements in Japan and Korea, it broke ground for transnational feminist solidarity in East Asia. This chapter explores the complexity of liberation for ethnic minority women.Less
The issue of “comfort women” urged a self-revision of Japanese women’s movements in the 1990s from “victim” to “assailant,” from monolith to multiplicity, revealing a legacy of colonialism and racism within Japanese feminism. A group of women of Korean origin played a significant role in advancing the redress movement in Japan. Korean Women’s Network on the Comfort Women Issue (JŪgun Ianfu Mondai Uri Yoson Nettowāku) emerged as the first grassroots movement that drew attention to multiple forms of oppression and the specific identity and positioning of Korean women in Japan. Through this movement, Yeoseong Network criticized their marginalization and invisibility in Japanese society as well as the sexism in the ethnic Korean community. Bridging women’s movements in Japan and Korea, it broke ground for transnational feminist solidarity in East Asia. This chapter explores the complexity of liberation for ethnic minority women.
Ji-Yeon O. Jo
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824867751
- eISBN:
- 9780824876968
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824867751.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
Homing Diaspora Koreans revolves around the experiences of legacy migrants—later-generation diaspora Koreans who have migrated to South Korea—from China, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and ...
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Homing Diaspora Koreans revolves around the experiences of legacy migrants—later-generation diaspora Koreans who have migrated to South Korea—from China, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the United States. This book is based on interviews with sixty-three legacy migrants and thirty secondary informants. In Part I, I provide insights on how diaspora subjectivities formed through the sociohistorical and political specificities of each diaspora and were further shaped by diasporans’ efforts to embody inherited images of Korea/n even as they negotiated belonging in their countries of diaspora. Part II is devoted to four intangible “borders”—social spaces, citizenship, Korean language, and family—and how each border shapes the affective conditions of legacy migrants. It goes on to demonstrate how their evolving psychoemotional responses, which I call “affective topography,” contribute to the (re)making of Korean peoplehood. Diaspora Koreans who migrate to Korea must navigate belongings that are situated in the nexus between ethnic nationalism and neoliberalism and mediated by how their affective topographies shift as expectations meet reality. Through this process, they form different degrees of “affective investment,” which, in turn, contributes to a Korean peoplehood that is still evolving.Less
Homing Diaspora Koreans revolves around the experiences of legacy migrants—later-generation diaspora Koreans who have migrated to South Korea—from China, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the United States. This book is based on interviews with sixty-three legacy migrants and thirty secondary informants. In Part I, I provide insights on how diaspora subjectivities formed through the sociohistorical and political specificities of each diaspora and were further shaped by diasporans’ efforts to embody inherited images of Korea/n even as they negotiated belonging in their countries of diaspora. Part II is devoted to four intangible “borders”—social spaces, citizenship, Korean language, and family—and how each border shapes the affective conditions of legacy migrants. It goes on to demonstrate how their evolving psychoemotional responses, which I call “affective topography,” contribute to the (re)making of Korean peoplehood. Diaspora Koreans who migrate to Korea must navigate belongings that are situated in the nexus between ethnic nationalism and neoliberalism and mediated by how their affective topographies shift as expectations meet reality. Through this process, they form different degrees of “affective investment,” which, in turn, contributes to a Korean peoplehood that is still evolving.
Kimberly D. McKee
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042287
- eISBN:
- 9780252051128
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042287.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
Adoptees’ print and online works provide a critical starting point for other adoptees as they negotiate their multiple, intersecting identities. The autobiographical narrative encourages adoptees’ ...
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Adoptees’ print and online works provide a critical starting point for other adoptees as they negotiate their multiple, intersecting identities. The autobiographical narrative encourages adoptees’ assertion of what it means to be an adopted person as they create counterstories and engage in narrative repair. This chapter examines how adoptees moved from articulating their collective identities in the earliest published, adult adoptee-edited anthologies, Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology by Korean Adoptees (1997) and Voices From Another Place: A Collection of Works From a Generation Born in Korea and Adopted to Other Countries (1999), to their deployment of social media to connect with one another and members of the broader Korean diaspora through an examination of adoptee hip-hop artist Dan Matthews’ YouTube series asianish (2015-2016).Less
Adoptees’ print and online works provide a critical starting point for other adoptees as they negotiate their multiple, intersecting identities. The autobiographical narrative encourages adoptees’ assertion of what it means to be an adopted person as they create counterstories and engage in narrative repair. This chapter examines how adoptees moved from articulating their collective identities in the earliest published, adult adoptee-edited anthologies, Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology by Korean Adoptees (1997) and Voices From Another Place: A Collection of Works From a Generation Born in Korea and Adopted to Other Countries (1999), to their deployment of social media to connect with one another and members of the broader Korean diaspora through an examination of adoptee hip-hop artist Dan Matthews’ YouTube series asianish (2015-2016).
Elise Prébin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814760260
- eISBN:
- 9780814764961
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814760260.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines how South Korean society undertakes symbolic actions to integrate international adoptees as an ambiguous group that stands in between cultures. Focusing on Holt Children's ...
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This chapter examines how South Korean society undertakes symbolic actions to integrate international adoptees as an ambiguous group that stands in between cultures. Focusing on Holt Children's Services' Holt International Summer School (HISS) of 1999–2004, it considers how adoptees' potential positive attributes are maximized and their negative attributes minimized through special education programs and ritualized performances. It also scrutinizes the television program Ach'im madang: kŭ sarami pogosip'ta (Morning talk show: I want to see this person again) to show that transnational adoptees occupy a middle-ground sociological status in Korea. Finally, it explains how transnational adoptees not only become members of the Korean diaspora through initiation and reeducation but also reproduce the diaspora by tacitly approving and taking part in the transnational adoption system.Less
This chapter examines how South Korean society undertakes symbolic actions to integrate international adoptees as an ambiguous group that stands in between cultures. Focusing on Holt Children's Services' Holt International Summer School (HISS) of 1999–2004, it considers how adoptees' potential positive attributes are maximized and their negative attributes minimized through special education programs and ritualized performances. It also scrutinizes the television program Ach'im madang: kŭ sarami pogosip'ta (Morning talk show: I want to see this person again) to show that transnational adoptees occupy a middle-ground sociological status in Korea. Finally, it explains how transnational adoptees not only become members of the Korean diaspora through initiation and reeducation but also reproduce the diaspora by tacitly approving and taking part in the transnational adoption system.
Alyssa M. Park
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501738364
- eISBN:
- 9781501738371
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501738364.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter gives an overview of the book and explains its framework and key terms. It defines sovereignty as a state’s authority claims over activities within a given political space, and presents ...
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This chapter gives an overview of the book and explains its framework and key terms. It defines sovereignty as a state’s authority claims over activities within a given political space, and presents the cross-border mobility of Koreans as a challenge to the authority of four governments. It discusses the concept of borderland, specific characteristics of the Tumen borderland, the standardization of legal categories of subjects and aliens as a core project of the modern state, necessity of integrating Northeast Asia into global histories of migration and governance, historiography of Korean diaspora studies in the fields of Korean, Chinese, Russian, and Soviet history, and significance of transnational approaches to the study of this region. Finally, it provides a summary of the ensuing chapters.Less
This chapter gives an overview of the book and explains its framework and key terms. It defines sovereignty as a state’s authority claims over activities within a given political space, and presents the cross-border mobility of Koreans as a challenge to the authority of four governments. It discusses the concept of borderland, specific characteristics of the Tumen borderland, the standardization of legal categories of subjects and aliens as a core project of the modern state, necessity of integrating Northeast Asia into global histories of migration and governance, historiography of Korean diaspora studies in the fields of Korean, Chinese, Russian, and Soviet history, and significance of transnational approaches to the study of this region. Finally, it provides a summary of the ensuing chapters.
Elise Prébin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814760260
- eISBN:
- 9780814764961
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814760260.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the shift in South Korean policies toward Korean adoptees and in public opinion about transnational adoption in the country since 1954. It begins by tracing the history of ...
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This chapter examines the shift in South Korean policies toward Korean adoptees and in public opinion about transnational adoption in the country since 1954. It begins by tracing the history of transnational adoption from Korea, with particular emphasis on the work of one of the four main adoption agencies in South Korea, Holt Children's Services. It then considers how South Korean representations of transnational adoptees changed from negative to positive over time in official discourses owing to the globalization of Korea and the construction of the Korean diaspora. It shows how globalization has paved the way for Korean babies and children, who were sent to transnational adoption on the basis of their invalid family ties that denied them the status of person, to return to their birth country.Less
This chapter examines the shift in South Korean policies toward Korean adoptees and in public opinion about transnational adoption in the country since 1954. It begins by tracing the history of transnational adoption from Korea, with particular emphasis on the work of one of the four main adoption agencies in South Korea, Holt Children's Services. It then considers how South Korean representations of transnational adoptees changed from negative to positive over time in official discourses owing to the globalization of Korea and the construction of the Korean diaspora. It shows how globalization has paved the way for Korean babies and children, who were sent to transnational adoption on the basis of their invalid family ties that denied them the status of person, to return to their birth country.
Elise Prébin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814760260
- eISBN:
- 9780814764961
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814760260.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the construction of Korean adoptees as members of the all-encompassing diaspora in relation to everyday life when adoptees encounter South Koreans in the streets. Drawing on a ...
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This chapter examines the construction of Korean adoptees as members of the all-encompassing diaspora in relation to everyday life when adoptees encounter South Koreans in the streets. Drawing on a series of impressionistic vignettes, it analyzes the pace of change in transnational adoptees' everyday reactions, opinions, and prejudices relative to political discourses in the national and international spheres. It also considers discourses on all categories of ethnic Koreans that include transnational adoptees, orphans, and emigrants and form a hierarchy based on their degree of Koreanness. Finally, it explores how the positive official discourse about the Korean diaspora is reflected in people's attitudes toward either transnational adoptees or emigrants' children.Less
This chapter examines the construction of Korean adoptees as members of the all-encompassing diaspora in relation to everyday life when adoptees encounter South Koreans in the streets. Drawing on a series of impressionistic vignettes, it analyzes the pace of change in transnational adoptees' everyday reactions, opinions, and prejudices relative to political discourses in the national and international spheres. It also considers discourses on all categories of ethnic Koreans that include transnational adoptees, orphans, and emigrants and form a hierarchy based on their degree of Koreanness. Finally, it explores how the positive official discourse about the Korean diaspora is reflected in people's attitudes toward either transnational adoptees or emigrants' children.