Diasporic Returns to the Ethnic Homeland, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019 The Korean Diaspora in Comparative Perspective

This book examines Korean cases of return migrations and diasporic engagement policy. The study concentrates on the effects of this migration on citizens who have returned to their ancestral homeland for the first time and examines how these experiences vary based on nationality, social class, and generational status. The project?s primary audience includes academics and policy makers with an interest in regional politics, migration, diaspora, citizenship, and Korean studies.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Korean Diasporic Returns by Takeyuki Tsuda

Chapter 2: The Causes of Diasporic Return: A Comparative Perspective by Takeyuki Tsuda and Changzoo Song

Chapter 3: Neither “Fish nor Fowl”: An Examination of South Korea’s Diaspora Engagement Policies by Timothy C. Lim, Dong-Hoon Seol, and Atsuko Sato

Part 1: Korean Ethnic Return Migration

Chapter 4: Joseonjok and Goryeo Saram Ethnic Return Migrants in South Korea: Hierarchy Among Co-ethnics and Ethno-National Identity by Changzoo Song

Chapter 5: Hierarchical Ethnic Nationhood, Formal Membership, and Beyond: Joseonjokand Formal and Substantive Citizenship in their Ethnic Homeland by Nora Hui-Jung Kim

Chapter 6: Ethnic Korean Returnees from Japan in South Korea: Experiences and Identities by Sug-In Kweon

Part 2: First and 1.5 Generation Korean Return Migration

Chapter 7: Ethnic Return Migration of Miguk Hanin (Korean Americans): Entanglement of Diaspora and Transnationalism by Christian Joon Park

Chapter 8: Uri Nara, Our Country: Korean American Adoptee Return to South Korea by Kim Park Nelson

Chapter 9: Here and there: Return visit experiences of Korean Health care workers in Germany by Yonson Ahn 

Part 3: Comparative Perspectives: Ethnic Return Migration in the Asian Diaspora

Chapter 10: Ethnic Return Migration and Noncitizen Hierarchies in South Korea and Japan by Erin Aeran Chung

Chapter 11: Japanese American Ethnic Return Migration Across the Generations by Takeyuki Tsuda

Chapter 12: Alternatives to Diasporic Return: Temporary Visits and Imagining Homelands Among Hmong Americans by Sangmi Lee

Conclusion: Interrogating Return: Ambivalent Homecomings and Ethnic Hierarchies

Takeyuki Tsuda is Professor of Anthropology, Arizona State University, USA.

Changzoo Song is Senior Lecturer in Korean and Asian Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Cites specific cases of return migration in South Korea

Explores developments of the hierarchies among co-ethnics in ethnic homelands

Examines diasporic return migration in the context of policy