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Belonging in a House Divided chronicles the everyday lives of resettled North Korean refugees in South Korea and their experiences of violence, postwar citizenship, and ethnic boundary making. Through extensive ethnographic research, Joowon Park documents the emergence of cultural differences and tensions between Koreans from the North and South, as well as new transnational kinship practices that connect family members across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. As a South Korean citizen raised outside the peninsula and later drafted into the military, Park weaves in autoethnographic accounts of his own experience in the army to provide an empathetic and vivid analysis of the multiple overlapping layers of violence that shape the embodied experiences of belonging. He asks readers to consider why North Korean resettlement in South Korea is a difficult process, despite a shared goal of reunification and the absence of a language barrier. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in anthropology, migration, and the politics of humanitarianism.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 224
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
22 November 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520384248
Format: Paperback
"A horrific yet compassionate story."
"Park’s book is highly recommended as a critical antidote to the often generic and diluted representations of North Koreans. . .This book is worthwhile reading for any observer and student of (North) Korean studies, citizenship and migration, gender studies, cultural anthropology, human rights, and politics."
"Belonging in a House Divided offers a novel perspective. . . it invites readers to critically examine the interplay between violence, displacement, and the pursuit of belonging, thereby expanding our comprehension of the intricate realities surrounding migratory processes."
"Belonging in a House Divided is an important addition to the fields of anthropology, migration studies, Cold War studies, and Korean studies. Park has contributed valuable scholarship to understandings of belonging, citizenship, and home in a nation divided… A classic of Korean studies."
"This book effectively challenges the monolithic discourse on North Korean violence and provides a more nuanced understanding of North Koreans' resettlement experiences in South Korea. . . . The legacies of national division and unresolved war continue to permeate the lives of individuals across time and space."
"Park’s book is highly recommended as a critical antidote to the often generic and diluted representations of North Koreans. . .This book is worthwhile reading for any observer and student of (North) Korean studies, citizenship and migration, gender studies, cultural anthropology, human rights, and politics."
"Belonging in a House Divided offers a novel perspective. . . it invites readers to critically examine the interplay between violence, displacement, and the pursuit of belonging, thereby expanding our comprehension of the intricate realities surrounding migratory processes."
"Belonging in a House Divided is an important addition to the fields of anthropology, migration studies, Cold War studies, and Korean studies. Park has contributed valuable scholarship to understandings of belonging, citizenship, and home in a nation divided… A classic of Korean studies."
"This book effectively challenges the monolithic discourse on North Korean violence and provides a more nuanced understanding of North Koreans' resettlement experiences in South Korea. . . . The legacies of national division and unresolved war continue to permeate the lives of individuals across time and space."
Joowon Park is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Skidmore College.
Contents
Introduction: A House Divided
1. Enduring Legacies of Division and War
2. The Chinese Dimension of the North Korean Migration
3. The Body and the Violence of Phenotypical Normalization
4. Remittances and Transborder Kinship
5. Constructing North Korean Deservingness
Conclusion: A Continuum of Violence in a House Divided
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
Introduction: A House Divided
1. Enduring Legacies of Division and War
2. The Chinese Dimension of the North Korean Migration
3. The Body and the Violence of Phenotypical Normalization
4. Remittances and Transborder Kinship
5. Constructing North Korean Deservingness
Conclusion: A Continuum of Violence in a House Divided
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index