Making and Faking Kinship : Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea /

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In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosǒnjok) brides and laborers from northeastern China to restore productivity to its industries and countryside. South Korean officials and the media celebrated...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freeman, Caren, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women immigrants.
Rural families.
Intercountry marriage.
Foreign workers, Chinese.
Family policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Politique familiale > Coree du Sud.
Familles rurales > Coree du Sud.
Travailleurs etrangers chinois > Coree du Sud.
Immigrantes > Coree du Sud.
Mariage interethnique > Chine.
Mariage interethnique > Coree du Sud.
Family policy > Korea (South)
Rural families > Korea (South)
Foreign workers, Chinese > Korea (South)
Women immigrants > Korea (South)
Intercountry marriage > China.
Intercountry marriage > Korea (South)
Korea (South)
China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chosŏnjok maidens and farmer bachelors
  • Brides and brokers under suspicion
  • Gender logics in conflict
  • Faking kinship
  • Flexible families, fragile marriages
  • A failed national experiment?

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