Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea by Hae Yeon Choo and Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea by Jaeeun Kim both approach the formation of national membership and citizenship in light of the experiences of people at the margins of nation—in Choo's book, the Filipina migrants in South Korea, and in Kim's book, the Korean diaspora in Japan and China. Understood through these others of the nation, national membership is not a bundle of legal rights but a negotiated relationship among the state, civil society, and individuals. In tune with the growing interest in the rights-claims of people at the margins in citizenship studies of the last decade or so, Choo and Kim delve into the political and cultural construction of rights, identities, and entitlements. In their studies migration is, in turn, not simply the pursuit of economic opportunity but also a political, symbolic,...
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November 01 2017
Citizens and Borders - Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea and Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea
. By Hae Yeon Choo. Stanford, Calif
.: Stanford University Press
, 2016
. xi, 200 pp. ISBN: 9780804791274 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
. By Jaeeun Kim. Stanford, Calif
.: Stanford University Press
, 2016
. xv, 340 pp. ISBN: 9780804797627 (cloth, also available as e-book).
Hyun Ok Park
Hyun Ok Park
York University
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1115–1118.
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Hyun Ok Park; Citizens and Borders - Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea and Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea. Journal of Asian Studies 1 November 2017; 76 (4): 1115–1118. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817001073
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