... and microprocesses of social life in relation to urban inequality. Drawing on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted between 2009 and 2011 and in-depth interviews with twenty-two South Korean young adults, the author analyzes how a host of young adults strive for their belonging as they confront their own...

... life. However, there are consequences for those who move, in terms of belonging and how they imagine their life projects. This article extends the established scholarship on mobility out of China by comparing the rhetorical construction of mobility with the experiences of Chinese migrants in Japan...

..., and by emphasizing children's perspectives, the author puts forth the argument that theorizations of integration and assimilation developed in the migration literature are useful for understanding the context in which de facto stateless children in Cambodia negotiate “place belonging.” c.rumsby@keele.ac.uk...

... refusal not only of disciplinary rules but also of basic rites of courtesy and belonging. In this sense, the analysis of everyday life of students at Beijing University shows not only that sociological categories or communitarian identities are no guarantee of politics, but also that politics among...

... and about cultural citizenship, or belonging. The essay further analyzes a recent experimental film by Cui Zi'en about money boys that challenges homonormativity in China. Duke University Press 2010 Essays: Part II The Traffic in Money Boys Lisa Rofel Why do so many gay men...

... their insertion into an international labor market where they struggle to maintain a sense of national belonging. These subjects are figured as entrepreneur-consumers, whose mediation commodifies their own affect, bodies, and labor power and uphold global structures. Featuring primarily middle-class protagonists...

... in place of the unabashed gender hierarchy of Chosŏn Korea; how to perceive women as belonging not to a class-divided family but to a nation where each one is supposedly given an equal standing to one another. In “Tears of Blood,” the homogenizing project conflictingly intersects with the ideology...

... of national division with the sensibilities of the millennial generation. Feeling that their lives are rendered ingyŏ (surplus) under neoliberal governance, the precarious youth empathetically relate to the history-laden image of spies, whose belonging in society has been disavowed or forsaken. Appropriating...

... the interactive processes for a minority group to carve out its cultural, economic, and political spaces of creative belonging within the state by conversing with national narratives and contending for the epistemological authority to represent itself in multiethnic China. Copyright 2021 by Duke University...

... not belong in families.” This article examines the informal, familial, financial, and social means people use to solve what might be called “family problems” when formal legal assistance is foreclosed. Operating as alternatives to the legal system, these strategies nevertheless are structured directly...

... of the residence of Marquis Kuroda on page 651 belongs with the caption on page 653; the photograph of Baron Kaneko’s reception room on page 653 belongs with the caption on page 657; and the photograph of the dining room of Mr. Okura on page...

... of the residence of Marquis Kuroda on page 651 belongs with the caption on page 653; the photograph of Baron Kaneko’s reception room on page 653 belongs with the caption on page 657; and the photograph of the dining room of Mr. Okura on page...

... ease with which images now crisscross the globe has significant implications for the experience of immigration, as well as for cit- izenship and belonging for those people who have not migrated. These uneven and unequal exchanges...

... citizenship and therefore the parameters of belonging on the international stage. While this essay con- structs an argument regarding the discourse on this issue, the international relations policies that emerge from such texts have material effects...

..., in this instance, the old-­time coffeehouse (kopi-­tiam) making way for new restau- rants that announce “local” food on their menus. To rephrase the question he is asking, when does something that already belongs to a context become local to it? For Beng...

... and in its valiance, becomes a signi er for the living lega- cies of war, genocide, forced severance, and, not the least, the indomitable human capacity for resilience. History, Memory, and Belonging Where home and history evoke the imagery...

..., reductive clarity of familiar tropes and the comfort of unexamined, deeply inculcated prejudices. It is an invitation to engage with questions of membership and community; space and place; belonging and estrangement; dislocation and relocation...

... of a national imaginary thus lies in a shared history (often of suffer- ing), which allows the people of a nation to forget their differences — of race, class, ethnicity, and language — and to imagine themselves as belonging to the same community...

...], an immensely popular Hindi film about overseas Indians, as a lens for studying how notions of belonging, territoriality, and nation have been reconstructed in contemporary India. Released in I 995, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (which many...