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Borderland Dreams (The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers)
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Product Details
Author:
June Hee Kwon
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
256
Publisher:
Duke University Press (November 17, 2023)
Imprint:
Duke University Press
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9781478025337
ISBN-10:
1478025336
Weight:
12.8oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
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$26.95
Country of Origin:
United States
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48
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Overview
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 Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture 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 of 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 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.
