Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers

June Hee Kwon

Published by Duke University Press 2023

Borderland Dreams

The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers

June Hee Kwon

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027461

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About this book

June Hee Kwon documents the diverse aspirations of Korean Chinese migrant workers moving from China to South Korea.

Author / Editor information

June Hee Kwon is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at California State University, Sacramento.

Reviews

“Offering ethnographically rich insights into labor migration between China and South Korea from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s, June Hee Kwon tracks ethnic and kin affinities and tensions amid changing political and global economic conditions, providing nuanced descriptions and analysis of the distinct temporal-spatial experiences of the Korean Chinese migrants entangled in transnational flows of labor, money, and consumption. Borderland Dreams makes an important contribution to scholarship on translocal and transnational migration, political economy, ethnicity, and China and East Asia.”

-- Julie Y. Chu, author of Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China

“Borderland Dreams tells a powerful, complex, and ethnographically driven story about capitalist modernity in China, ethnicity, borders and labor migration, remittance economies, and the temporalities of global capitalism. Drawing on highly original and important fieldwork, June Hee Kwon depicts the dreams, aspirations, and frustrations of her interlocutors through lively and engaging prose.”

-- Eleana J. Kim, author of Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Winds of Migration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: The Rising Korean Dream
1. Ethnic Borderland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. The Un/Welcoming Homeland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Part II: Dreams in Flux
3. Rhythms of “Free” Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
4. The Work of Waiting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Part III: Dreaming Anew
5. The Leaving and the Living Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
6. Break the Cycle! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Conclusion. The Afterlife of the Korean Dream Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 248

eBook

Published: October 13, 2023
ISBN: 9781478027461