Koreans in Japan

Critical Voices from the Margin
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-21999-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryang, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: On Resident Koreans in Japan 1. Politics of Legal Status: The Equation of Nationality with Ethnonational Identity 2. On the North Korean Homeland of Koreans in Japan 3. Political Correctness, Postcoloniality and Self-Representation of 'Koreanness' in Japan 4. Mothers write Ikaino 5. Reading Against the Bourgeois and National Bodies: Transcultural Body-Politics in Yu Miri's Textual Representation 6. Cultural Identity in the Work of Yi Yang-ji 7. Korean Ethnic Schools in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 8. Korean Children, Textbooks and Educational Practices in Japanese Primary Schools 9. Kids Between Nations: Ethnic Classes in the Construction of Korean Identities in Japanese Public Schools 10. Ordinary (Korean) Japanese

Über Autor(innen)

Ryang, Sonia