Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and diasporas. Specifically, Jaeeun Kim analyzes disputes over the belonging of Koreans in Japan and China, focusing on their contested relationship with the colonial and postcolonial states in the Korean peninsula. Extending the constructivist approach to nationalisms and the culturalist view of the modern state to a transnational context, Contested Embrace illuminates the political and bureaucratic construction of ethno-national populations beyond the territorial boundary of the state. Through a comparative analysis of transborder membership politics in the colonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods, the book shows how the configuration of geopolitics, bureaucratic techniques, and actors' agency shapes the making, unmaking, and remaking of transborder ties. Kim demonstrates that being a "homeland" state or a member of the "transborder nation" is a precarious, arduous, and revocable political achievement.

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Kim, Jaeeun;

Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, California, 2016

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Scholars Have Long Examined The Relationship Between Nation-states And Their 'internal Others' Such As Immigrants And Ethno-racial Minorities. This Volume Shifts The Analytic Focus To Explore How A State Relates To These People. Introduction : Making, Unmaking, And Remaking Transborder Ties -- Engaging Colonial Subjects On The Move : Colonial State, Migration, And Diasporic Nationhood -- Who Owns The Nation? : Cold-war Competition Over Zainichi Koreans In Japan -- Beyond Bamboo Curtain And Hermit Kingdom : Korean Chinese Between Two Socialist Fatherlands -- Reluctant Embrace And Struggles For Inclusion : Korean Chinese Return Migration To Post-cold War South Korea -- Conclusion : Ethnic Nationalism, Globalization, And The Future Of Transborder Membership Politics. Jaeeun Kim. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Extending the constructivist approach to nationalisms and the culturalist view of the modern state to a transnational context, Contested Embrace illuminates the political and bureaucratic construction of ethno-national populations beyond the territorial boundary of the state. Through a comparative analysis of transborder membership politics in the colonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods, the book shows how the configuration of geopolitics, bureaucratic techniques, and actors' agency shapes the making, unmaking, and remaking of transborder ties. Kim demonstrates that being a "homeland" state or a member of the "transborder nation" is a precarious, arduous, and revocable political achievement. --Publisher description

Contents 10
List of Illustrations 11
Acknowledgments 12
Introduction: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Transborder Ties 20
1. Engaging Colonial Subjects on the Move: Colonial State, Migration, and Diasporic Nationhood 48
2. “Who Owns the Nation?”: Cold War Competition over Zainichi Koreans in Japan 92
3. Beyond “Bamboo Curtain” and “Hermit Kingdom”: Korean Chinese between Two Socialist Fatherlands 145
4. Reluctant Embrace and Struggles for Inclusion: Korean Chinese “Return” Migration to Post–Cold War South Korea 191
Conclusion: Ethnic Nationalism, Globalization, and the Future of Transborder Membership Politics 246
Appendix: Archival and Ethnographic Data 260
Notes 264
Bibliography 298
Index 344

2025-10-27