| Contents |
Ethnic borderland -- The un/welcome homeland -- Rhythms of "free" movement -- The work of waiting -- The leaving and the living -- Break the cycle! |
| Abstract |
"In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the "Korean dream" that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian in northeast China to South Korea since the early 1990s. Charting the interplay of bodies, money, and time, the ethnography reveals how these migrant workers, in the course pursuing their borderland dreams, are transformed into a transnational ethnicized class. Kwon analyzes the persistent desire of Korean Chinese to "leave to live better" at the intersection between the neoliberalizing regimes of post-socialist China and of post-Cold War South Korea. Scrutinizing the tensions and affinities among the Korean Chinese, North and South Koreans, and Han Chinese whose lives intertwine in the borderland, Kwon captures the diverse and multifaceted aspirations of Korean Chinese workers caught between the ascendant Chinese dream and the waning Korean dream"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kwon, June Hee, 1974- Borderland dreams. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478027461 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023001613 |
| ISBN | 9781478025337 |
| ISBN | 1478025336 |
| ISBN | 9781478020516 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1478020512 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
