Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea

by Jaeeun Kim

Book Overview

Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. Contested Embrace 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503615006
• ISBN13: 9781503615007
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"