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