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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457684303321

Autore

Freeman Caren <1968->

Titolo

Making and faking kinship [[electronic resource] ] : marriage and labor migration between China and South Korea / / Caren Freeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8014-6282-7

0-8014-6281-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

306.85/2095195

Soggetti

Intercountry marriage - Korea (South)

Intercountry marriage - China

Women immigrants - Korea (South)

Foreign workers, Chinese - Korea (South)

Rural families - Korea (South)

Family policy - Korea (South)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Language and Translations -- Introduction -- Part I. Migrant Brides and the Pact of Gender, Kinship, Nation -- 1. Chosŏnjok Maidens and Farmer Bachelors -- 2. Brides and Brokers under Suspicion -- 3. Gender Logics in Conflict -- Part II. Migrant Workers, Counterfeit Kinship, and Split Families -- 4. Faking Kinship -- 5. Flexible Families, Fragile Marriages -- 6. A Failed National Experiment? -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 than any of the parties involved could have imagined. Discriminatory treatment, artificially suppressed wages, clashing gender logics, and the criminalization of so-called runaway brides and undocumented workers tarnished the myth of ethnic homogeneity and exposed the contradictions at the heart of South Korea's transnational kin-making project.Unlike migrant brides who could acquire citizenship, migrant workers were denied the rights of long-term settlement, and stringent "as 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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910629372503321

Autore

Assumma Maria Cristina

Titolo

Cogliam d'amor la rosa : variazioni nella poesia spagnola e altrove / / Maria Cristina Assumma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Artemide

Soggetti

Poetry - History and criticism

Spanish poetry - History and criticism

Roses in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia