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The post-World War II Korean diaspora is large, numbering 6.9 million (including both long- and short-term migrants) as of 2010.3 The political division in 1948 resulted in two Korean states, each of which has claimed the entire Korean peninsula and thus the total diaspora as its own.
Sep 1, 2023 · This Element provides new empirical evidence on the North Korean diaspora; demonstrates that regime type is an important, understudied factor shaping transnational and diasporic politics; and contributes to our understanding of comparative authoritarianism's global impact.
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1 Introduction: North Korea’s Emerging Diaspora. This Element examines the emergence and significance of the North Korean diaspora. Over the past thirty years, a growing number of individuals have left the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and resettled in third countries, forming a new, globally dispersed population.
This chapter examines these aspects of the North Korean diaspora. It begins by outlining the migration processes and resettlement destinations of individuals who have escaped from the North, and discusses several major factors that shape where these communities have emerged.
Diaspora members identify themselves, or are identified by others – inside and outside their homeland – as part of the homeland’s national community.”. North Koreans beyond the Korean peninsula are dispersed from the homeland, whether that homeland is defined as North Korea, or the larger Korean peninsula.
This Element provides new empirical evidence on the North Korean diaspora; demonstrates that regime type is an important, understudied factor shaping transnational and diasporic politics; and contributes to our understanding of comparative authoritarianism's global impact.
“North Korean Diaspora” is open to contestation, so the term is used with a re-stricted meaning, limiting its application to those who possessed North Korean citizenship once the North Korean government was established and who sought new homes outside North Korea. The diaspora is categorized into three periods.