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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807193303321

Titolo

Diaspora without homeland [[electronic resource] ] : being Korean in Japan / / edited by Sonia Ryang and John Lie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-27696-8

9786613276964

0-520-91619-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Global, area, and international archive

Altri autori (Persone)

RyangSonia

LieJohn

Disciplina

305.895/7052

Soggetti

Koreans - Japan - Social conditions

Marginality, Social - Japan

Japan Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Between the Nations: Diaspora and Koreans in Japan -- 1. Occupations of Korea and Japan and the Origins of the Korean Diaspora in Japan -- 2. Freedom and Homecoming: Narratives of Migration in the Repatriation of Zainichi Koreans to North Korea -- 3. Visible and Vulnerable: The Predicament of Koreans in Japan -- 4. Reinventing Korean Roots and Zainichi Routes: The Invisible Diaspora among Naturalized Japanese of Korean Descent -- 5. Pacchigi! and Go: Representing Zainichi in Recent Cinema -- 6. The Foreigner Category for Koreans in Japan: Opportunities and Constraints -- 7. The Politics of Contingent Citizenship: Korean Political Engagement in Japan and the United States -- 8. The End of the Road?: The Post-Zainichi Generation -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today-the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated history, identity, and status of the Korean



minority in Japan. An international group of scholars explores commonalities and contradictions in the Korean diasporic experience, touching on such issues as citizenship and belonging, the personal and the political, and homeland and hostland.