Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin

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Sonia Ryang
Routledge, Oct 8, 2013 - Social Science - 240 pages

Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyzes these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society.
The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including:

* the legal and social status of Koreans in Japan

* the history of Korean colonial displacement and postcolonial division during the Cold War

* ethnic education

* women's self-expression.

These studies serve to reveal the highly resilient and diverse reality of this minority group, whilst simultaneously highlighting the fact that - despite recent improvement - legal, social and economic constraints continue to exist in their lives.

 

Contents

resident Koreans in Japan
1
the equation of nationality with ethnonational identity
13
2 The North Korean homeland of Koreans in Japan
32
3 Political correctness postcoloniality and the selfrepresentation of Koreanness in Japan
55
4 Mothers write Ikaino
74
transcultural bodypolitics in Yu Miris textual representations
103
6 Cultural identity in the work of Yi Yangji
119
7 Korean ethnic schools in occupied Japan 194552
140
8 Korean children textbooks and educational practices in Japanese primary schools
157
ethnic classes in the construction of Korean identities in Japanese public schools
175
10 Ordinary Korean Japanese
197
Bibliography
208
Index
226
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