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Caren Freeman - Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea - 9780801449581 - V9780801449581
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Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea

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Description for Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10, maps. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.

In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosǒnjok) brides and laborers from northeastern China to restore productivity to its industries and countryside. South Korean officials and the media celebrated these overtures not only as a pragmatic solution to population problems but also as a patriotic project of reuniting ethnic Koreans after nearly fifty years of Cold War separation.

As Caren Freeman's fieldwork in China and South Korea shows, the attempt to bridge the geopolitical divide in the name of Korean kinship proved more difficult ... Read more

Unlike migrant brides who could acquire citizenship, migrant workers were denied the rights of long-term settlement, and stringent quotas restricted their entry. As a result, many Chosǒnjok migrants arranged paper marriages and fabricated familial ties to South Korean citizens to bypass the state apparatus of border control. Making and Faking Kinship depicts acts of "counterfeit kinship," false documents, and the leaving behind of spouses and children as strategies implemented by disenfranchised people to gain mobility within the region’s changing political economy.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
525g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801449581
SKU
V9780801449581
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Caren Freeman
Caren Freeman is Director of Studies at Hereford Residential College and works in the International Studies Office at the University of Virginia.

Reviews for Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea
Making and Faking Kinship makes a significant contribution to the anthropology of South Korea, as well as scholarship on transnational migration, legality and nationalism, and gender and kinship. I highly recommend it for undergraduate courses, as it complicates issues students might otherwise dismiss as being natural (such as kinship) or "immoral" (like undocumented migration or contract marriages), and it helps ... Read more

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