Transnational Mobility and Identity in and out of Korea

Yonson Ahn is professor and chair of Korean studies at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.

Introduction: Transnational Mobility and Korea
Yonson Ahn

Part I: Transnational Mobility and Media

1. Media and Transnational Mobility of Korean Women
Youna Kim

2. Transnational Journey into Belonging: Korean American Adoptee’s Birth Search in Eric Sharp’s Middle Brother
Jieun Lee

Part II: Migratory Mobility and Gender

3. Nursing Care in Contact Zones: Korean Healthcare “Guest Workers” in Germany
Yonson Ahn

4. Patriarchal Racialization: Gendered and Racialized Integration of Foreign Brides and Foreign Husbands in South Korea
Seonok Lee

5. Doing Business in Contemporary Japan: The ‘New’ Wave of Korean Female Immigrants
Dukin Lim

Part III: Return Migration

6. Living as “Overseas Koreans” in South Korea: Examining the “Differential Inclusion” of Korean American “Returnees”
Stephen Cho Suh

7. (Dis-)Connectedness and Identity Negotiation: Lived Experiences of Korean Chinese Students in South Korea
Ruixin Wei

8. “Uh… well, we’re… Russians”: Identity and Resistance to Ethnic Hierarchy Among Koryŏ Saram Diasporic Returnees in South Korea
Changzoo Song

Part IV: Transnational Mobility from a Historical Perspective

9. Korean Immigration to the United States, 1903-1905: A New Look at Japanese Imperialism
Wayne Patterson

10. Korean Activists in Tōkyō, The Asia Kunglun, and Asian Solidarity in the early 1920s
Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus

11. Between Personal Choice and Social Exclusion: Diaspora Identities of Korean Marriage Migrants of the Korean War Period in the Philippines
Minjung Kim

Afterword: Transnationalism Studies and its Challenges: The View from Asia
Brenda S.A. Yeoh