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Kyoto Lecture Series: "The Deterioration of Ethnic Solidarity in Korean Transnational Enclaves in Beijing and Osaka," Sharon J. Yoon
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Lecture Date:
2014-10-22
Recently, scholars have noted that migrants exhibit distinct patterns
of adaptation characterized by frequent movement to their countries
of origin. This influx of transnational migration has, in turn,
altered the structure of historically established minority communities.
The research that will be presented investigates how changes in
the ethnic community have shaped the ways minorities construct
notions of ethnic identity, using ethnographic, interview and survey
data conducted in the Korean enclaves of Beijing and Osaka. These
enclaves reflect two distinct waves of migration: recent South Korean
transnational migrants, and third- and fourth-generation Korean
Japanese/Korean Chinese minorities. As a result of the growing
number of newcomers since the 1990s, the Koreatowns in Beijing and
Osaka have become increasingly connected—both on the institutional
and grassroots level—to the homeland. But rather than
strengthen sentiments of ethnic identity, this has led to formidable
barriers in constructing a collective consciousness within the Korean
community. Damaged co-ethnic relations between the two waves of
Korean migrants have significantly hindered their ability to mobilize
the rich transnational resources for upward mobility. The talk will
bring to light the structural barriers Korean migrants encounter in
cultivating solidarity in the transnational enclave. In doing so,
suggestions for social welfare policies that may aid migrants in more
effectively cooperating together to mobilize the resources offered by
the enclave will also be made.
Sharon J. Yoon is currently a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Postdoctoral Fellow at Osaka University. She completed her doctorate in
sociology at Princeton University in 2013 and spent one year as a Korea
Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania prior to
her arrival to Japan. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation
Dissertation Improvement Grant, the Korea Foundation, and the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and has been published by
the Korea Economic Institute and the International Journal of Sociology.
She is now working on two book manuscripts: Pursuing the Chinese Dream:
The Success and Failures of Korean Entrepreneurs, which is currently under
review, and When Nationalism Goes Virile: The Rise of Hate Speech in Osaka’s
Koreatown, in progress.
École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO)
29 Betto-cho Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8276 Japan
Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS)
4th Floor, 4 Yoshida Ushinomiya-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8302 Japan
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ISEAS | T: 075-751-8132 F: 075-751-8221 E: iseas@iseas-kyoto.org
This lecture will be held at the Institute for Research in Humanities
(IRH), Kyoto University (seminar room 1, 1st floor).
