TY - BOOK ID - 77897925 TI - Making and faking kinship : marriage and labor migration between China and South Korea PY - 2011 SN - 0801462827 0801462819 9780801462818 9780801449581 0801449588 1501713523 9780801462825 PB - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Family policy KW - Rural families KW - Foreign workers, Chinese KW - Women immigrants KW - Intercountry marriage KW - Families KW - Families and state KW - State and families KW - Public welfare KW - Social security KW - Social policy KW - Farm families KW - Alien labor, Chinese KW - Chinese foreign workers KW - Immigrant women KW - Immigrants KW - Binational marriage KW - International marriage KW - Marriages, International KW - Marriage KW - Foreign spouses KW - Government policy KW - Geschichte 1990-2000. KW - K9325.10 KW - K9331.114 KW - K9334.114 KW - K9418.90 KW - S11/1050 KW - S11/1110 KW - Korea: Communities, social classes and groups -- family -- marriage and divorce KW - Korea: Communities, social classes and groups -- ethnic and racial -- immigrants -- Asia -- China KW - Korea: Communities, social classes and groups -- ethnic and racial -- emigrants -- Asia -- China KW - Korea: Economy and industry -- labor and employment -- migrant labor, foreign workers KW - China: Social sciences--Family planning KW - China: Social sciences--Migration and emigration: Asia and South-East Asia (whatever timeperiod) KW - Intercountry marriage - Korea (South) KW - Intercountry marriage - China KW - Women immigrants - Korea (South) KW - Foreign workers, Chinese - Korea (South) KW - Rural families - Korea (South) KW - Family policy - Korea (South) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77897925 AB - In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosǒnjok) brides and laborers from northeastern China to restore productivity to its industries and countryside. South Korean officials and the media celebrated these overtures not only as a pragmatic solution to population problems but also as a patriotic project of reuniting ethnic Koreans after nearly fifty years of Cold War separation.As Caren Freeman's fieldwork in China and South Korea shows, the attempt to bridge the geopolitical divide in the name of Korean kinship proved more difficult than any of the parties involved could have imagined. Discriminatory treatment, artificially suppressed wages, clashing gender logics, and the criminalization of so-called runaway brides and undocumented workers tarnished the myth of ethnic homogeneity and exposed the contradictions at the heart of South Korea's transnational kin-making project.Unlike migrant brides who could acquire citizenship, migrant workers were denied the rights of long-term settlement, and stringent "as restricted their entry. As a result, many Chosǒnjok migrants arranged paper marriages and fabricated familial ties to South Korean citizens to bypass the state apparatus of border control. Making and Faking Kinship depicts acts of "counterfeit kinship," false documents, and the leaving behind of spouses and children as strategies implemented by disenfranchised people to gain mobility within the region's changing political economy. ER -