Professor Jaeeun Kim has published a new book called "Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea"
Professor Jaeeun Kim has published a new book called Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea.
Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethno-racial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and diasporas. Specifically, Jaeeun Kim analyzes disputes over the belonging of Koreans in Japan and China, focusing on their contested relationship with the colonial and postcolonial states in the Korean peninsula.