20th Century Diaspora: Korea's Transborder Identity Politics

The Korea File

Academics have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," like immigrants and ethnic or racial minorities. Now, with her award-winning book ‘Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea’ Jaeeun Kim shifts this focus to look at how a state relates to people it sees as diasporic "external members". In this conversation, Kim shares some of the ideas behind her comparative, historical, and ethnographic study of the complex relationships between the states in the Korean peninsula, colonial-era Korean migrants to Japan and northeast China and their descendants, and the states in which they’ve lived over the course of the twentieth century. To see Jaeun Kim’s full Nam Center lecture, look for ‘Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea’,on Youtube. Subscribe to the Nam Center’s Youtube channel at 'umichncks'. Become a financial supporter of this podcast at patreon.com/thekoreafile For more information on this lecture go to https://www.ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events.detail.html/42278-9593311.html Mastered by Chris Hernandez at Villeray Studios.