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Outsiders : Memories of Migration to and from North Korea / Markus Bell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Forced Migration ; 42Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800732308
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.9/06914095193 23
LOC classification:
  • DS933.3.J3 B45 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text and Confidentiality -- INTRODUCTION When There’s Nothing Left -- 1 Remembering the Exodus -- 2 Marriage and Mobility -- 3 Becoming a Foreigner in North Korea -- 4 Choosing Japan -- 5 Freedom, the Impossible Gift -- 6 Mobility, Memory, and the Fractured Self -- CONCLUSION Reimagining Refugees: From Crisis to Solution in Modern Japan -- APPENDIX Notes on Methodology -- References -- Index
Summary: In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world’s most secretive state—North Korea. Through vivid ethnographic details and interviews with North Korean escapees, Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea reveals the driving forces that propelled thousands of ordinary people to risk it all in Kim Il-Sung’s “Worker’s Paradise”, only to escape back to Japan half a century later.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text and Confidentiality -- INTRODUCTION When There’s Nothing Left -- 1 Remembering the Exodus -- 2 Marriage and Mobility -- 3 Becoming a Foreigner in North Korea -- 4 Choosing Japan -- 5 Freedom, the Impossible Gift -- 6 Mobility, Memory, and the Fractured Self -- CONCLUSION Reimagining Refugees: From Crisis to Solution in Modern Japan -- APPENDIX Notes on Methodology -- References -- Index

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In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world’s most secretive state—North Korea. Through vivid ethnographic details and interviews with North Korean escapees, Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea reveals the driving forces that propelled thousands of ordinary people to risk it all in Kim Il-Sung’s “Worker’s Paradise”, only to escape back to Japan half a century later.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)