Making and Faking Kinship Marriage and Labor Migration Between China and South Korea

Name: Making and Faking Kinship Marriage and Labor Migration Between China and South Korea
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ISBN: 9780801449581

ISBN-10: 0801449588

ISBN-13: 9780801449581

Edition: 2017

Authors: Caren Freeman

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In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosonjok) 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.…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Caren Freeman teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.



Acknowledgments


Notes on Language and Translations


Introduction



Migrant Brides and the Pact of Gender, Kinship, Nation



Chosonjok Maidens and Farmer Bachelors



Brides and Brokers under Suspicion



Gender Logics in Conflict



Migrant Workers, Counterfeit Kinship, and Split Families



Faking Kinship



Flexible Families, Fragile Marriages



A Failed National Experiment?


References


Index