{"product_id":"contested-embrace-transborder-membership-politics-in-twentieth-century-korea-hardback-9780804797627","title":"Contested Embrace; Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea (Hardback) 9780804797627","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTransborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJaeeun Kim (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804797627\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 July 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e sets a new standard in the study of migration and the state. Kim's theoretically agile and ethnographically vivid account shows how ordinary people and governments across Northeast Asia have wrestled over the question of who is Korean, and what that means in practice.\" —David Scott Fitzgerald, University of California, San Diego \"\u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant and bracing analysis of transborder membership politics. Exhaustively researched and meticulously argued, Jaeeun Kim's book is required reading for anyone interested in modern Northeast Asia, comparative ethnicity and nationalism, and transnational and global studies. It is a great book to think with.\" —John Lie, University of California, Berkeley \"This impressive work shows that neither instrumentalist nor culturalist views do justice to how states deal with their diaspora communities abroad and brings rare nuance to the vexed \"transnationalism\" problematic. Allergic to false binaries of many sorts, not least the one of micro v. macro, \u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e is simply good sociology.\" —Christian Joppke, University of Bern \"Kim's\u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e presents a commanding account of the long-term macrohistorical and regional interstate dynamics of the Korean transborder membership, mapping twentieth- and twenty-first-century Korean migration and repatriation across East Asia.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Asian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \"An impressive study, with in-depth historical narratives, engaging theoretical discussions, rich archival and ethnographic data, and nuanced analysis. \u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003eis the first extensive study that examines all the Korean transborder populations in Northeast Asia.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e \"The contributions of \u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e to the literature on nationalism, transnationality, citizenship, and migration are manifold and impressive. In terms of research ambition, scope, and quality of research, this book is a tour de force.\"—\u003ci\u003eCross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"A groundbreaking work that reshapes the field of international migration with rich, unusual ethnography, a convincing historical account, and a broader theoretical appeal to the study of nationalism, citizenship, and globalization.\"—\u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e \"Invoking such concepts as 'the presentation of self' (Goffman) and 'weapons of the weak'(Scott), Kim provides a vivid analysis of migrants' involvement in document forgeries, sham marriages, and other forms of identity fraud, contributing an especially agentic portrayal of the politics of 'who is what.'\"—\u003ci\u003eHan'guk Munhwa (Korean Culture)\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e uniquely and thoroughly connects the structural changes in the nation-building process, changes in geopolitical orders, and political and economic shifts in East Asia to the micro-analysis of individuals' experiences and negotiations with top-down policies.\"—\u003ci\u003eSociological Forum\u003c\/i\u003e \"Kim has meticulously utilized both historiographic and ethnographic approaches to dissect and analyze the discourse of belonging on the part of ethnic Koreans caught up in the violent and divisive historical developments in twentieth-century East Asia. \u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal work that integrates the historical, political, social, and economic experiences of diasporic Koreans in Japan and China vis-à-vis North and South Korea.\"—Arnel E. Joven, \u003ci\u003ePacific Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their \"internal others,\" such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. \u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as \"external members\" such as emigrants and diasporas. Specifically, Jaeeun Kim analyzes disputes over the belonging of Koreans in Japan and China, focusing on their contested relationship with the colonial and postcolonial states in the Korean peninsula.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtending the constructivist approach to nationalisms and the culturalist view of the modern state to a transnational context, \u003ci\u003eContested Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the political and bureaucratic construction of ethno-national populations beyond the territorial boundary of the state. Through a comparative analysis of transborder membership politics in the colonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods, the book shows how the configuration of geopolitics, bureaucratic techniques, and actors' agency shapes the making, unmaking, and remaking of transborder ties. Kim demonstrates that being a \"homeland\" state or a member of the \"transborder nation\" is a precarious, arduous, and revocable political achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Transborder Ties\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 1: Engaging Colonial Subjects on the Move: Colonial State, Migration, and Diasporic Nationhood\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 2: \"\u003cbr\u003eWho Owns the Nation?\"\u003cbr\u003e Cold War Competition over Zainichi Koreans in Japan\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 3: Beyond \"\u003cbr\u003eBamboo Curtain\"\u003cbr\u003e and \"\u003cbr\u003eHermit Kingdom\"\u003cbr\u003e: Korean Chinese between Two Socialist Fatherlands\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 4: Reluctant Embrace and Struggles for Inclusion: Korean Chinese \"\u003cbr\u003eReturn\"\u003cbr\u003e Migration to Post-Cold War South Korea\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Ethnic Nationalism, Globalization, and the Future of Transborder Membership Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551723417880,"sku":"9780804797627","price":65.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/contested-embrace-transborder-membership-politics-in-twentieth-century-korea-hardback-9780804797627","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}