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- The past two decades has witnessed the development of a new phenomenon: a small but growing globally dispersed population of North Koreans, individuals who have left North Korea since the end of the Cold War and whose identity is at least partially distinct from previous generations of emigrants from the Korean peninsula.
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In addressing these questions, it is appropriate to begin with a basic history of the North Korean diaspora. 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 ...
The Korean diaspora consists of around 7.3 million people, both descendants of early emigrants from the Korean Peninsula, as well as more recent emigrants from Korea. Around 84.5% of overseas Koreans live in just five countries: China, the United States, Japan, Canada, and Uzbekistan.
world, North Korea provides an important case study by which to examine these larger comparative questions. Politics of the North Korean Diaspora explains the origins and shape of the North Korean diaspora, examines how North Korean émigrés participation in democratic host countries intersects with their activism vis-à-vis the DPRK s
For approximately 3200 years, from 2333 B.C.E. to 926 C.E., the northern regions of Korea (today's Manchuria and Mongolia) had been inhabited by Koreans. With the fall of Balhae in 926 C.E., many Koreans absorbed into the northern nomadic tribes, China and Russia. That diaspora has been difficult to document.
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.
World: Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and History explores the diverse voices of Korean diaspora across the world, tracing the meaning and the performance of homeland for them (Han et al., 2020, p. vii). While much research has looked at the largest Korean diaspora, located within the United States, little attention
The Three Periods of the North Korean Diaspora As has been mentioned above, this study recognizes that the meaning of the term “North Korean Diaspora” is open to contestation, so the term is used with a restricted meaning, limiting its application to those who possessed North Korean citizenship once the North Korean government was ...
