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@article{ART002095942},
author={SO-HEE LEE},
title={Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2010},
volume={3},
number={2},
pages={199-223},
doi={10.22901/trans.2010.3.2.199}

TY - JOUR
AU - SO-HEE LEE
TI - Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2010
VL - 3
IS - 2
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 199
EP - 223
SN - 2092-6081
AB - This paper explores the characteristics of the returned Korean adoptees’ beyond-borders identities with the possibility of their becoming transnational hybrid citizen subjects. Transnational Korean adoptees are a unique group of overseas Koreans because they have experienced separation from their Korean birth families and been raised in most white families and communities. Transnational adoptee networks constitute a unique and ultramodern global community transcending the limitations of geographical boundaries, meeting at gatherings and through the Internet, mostly using English. Moreover, about 500 transnational Korean adoptees have returned to Korea for the settlement by now, searching for their cultural identities in Korean society. But, their trials to “embrace Koreanness” through going back home do not offer a comfortable experience at all. Rather, visiting and resettling in Korea, meeting the birth family, especially meeting the birth mother, are understandably very difficult for one who has a white identity, which is the only identity that they have experienced so far. Thus, their experiences of national, cultural, and racial identities are varied and shifting. Recent changes to Korean immigration law concerning the F4 visa allows the returned transnational adoptees to live and work in Korea for indefinite periods of time. Embracing transnational Korean adoptees as economically and culturally “Korean” citizens includes them among the newest groups of “flexible citizens,” reflecting their ambivalent struggle for the practice of transnational hybrid citizenship and the sense of belonging; born in one culture, raised in another, they cannot wholly accept one and wholly reject the other.
KW - transnational adoption;the returned adoptees;flexible citizen;birth family;birth mother;white subject position;out-of-place subjectivity;beyond-borders identity
DO - 10.22901/trans.2010.3.2.199
ER -

SO-HEE LEE. (2010). Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 3(2), 199-223.

SO-HEE LEE. 2010, "Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.3, no.2 pp.199-223. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2010.3.2.199

SO-HEE LEE "Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 3.2 pp.199-223 (2010) : 199.

SO-HEE LEE. Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities. 2010; 3(2), 199-223. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2010.3.2.199

SO-HEE LEE. "Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 3, no.2 (2010) : 199-223.doi: 10.22901/trans.2010.3.2.199

SO-HEE LEE. Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 3(2), 199-223. doi: 10.22901/trans.2010.3.2.199

SO-HEE LEE. Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2010; 3(2) 199-223. doi: 10.22901/trans.2010.3.2.199

SO-HEE LEE. Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities. 2010; 3(2), 199-223. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2010.3.2.199

SO-HEE LEE. "Transnational Citizen Subject: The Returned Korean Adoptees’ Beyond-Borders Identities" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 3, no.2 (2010) : 199-223.doi: 10.22901/trans.2010.3.2.199