04347nam 2200745Ia 450 991078193170332120200520144314.00-8014-6282-70-8014-6281-910.7591/9780801462818(CKB)2550000000063269(OCoLC)763161307(CaPaEBR)ebrary10508777(SSID)ssj0000538822(PQKBManifestationID)11354989(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538822(PQKBWorkID)10560443(PQKB)10517989(StDuBDS)EDZ0001496006(MiAaPQ)EBC3138252(OCoLC)1080549173(MdBmJHUP)muse58211(DE-B1597)478606(OCoLC)979579710(DE-B1597)9780801462818(Au-PeEL)EBL3138252(CaPaEBR)ebr10508777(CaONFJC)MIL768206(EXLCZ)99255000000006326920110524d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrMaking and faking kinship[electronic resource] marriage and labor migration between China and South Korea /Caren FreemanIthaca Cornell University Press20111 online resource (279 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-5017-1352-3 0-8014-4958-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexIn 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.Intercountry marriageKorea (South)Intercountry marriageChinaWomen immigrantsKorea (South)Foreign workers, ChineseKorea (South)Rural familiesKorea (South)Family policyKorea (South)Intercountry marriageIntercountry marriageWomen immigrantsForeign workers, ChineseRural familiesFamily policy306.85/2095195Freeman Caren1968-1527819MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781931703321Making and faking kinship3771055UNINA