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@article{ART002563590},
author={Young Shil Yoon},
title={Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2020},
volume={77},
number={1},
pages={203-247},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.203}

TY - JOUR
AU - Young Shil Yoon
TI - Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2020
VL - 77
IS - 1
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 203
EP - 247
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This paper examines Korean refugees in Manchuria during the inter-war period and the implication of their existence in relation to the global history of the time. Hannah Arendt paid attention to the oppression and denationalization of racial minorities and stateless peoples in the inter-war European countries and analyzed the phenomenon as the collapse of the nation-state system. During the same period, millions of colonial Koreans in Manchuria were also becoming refugees, dispossessed of their rights of culture, cultivation and residence. Avoiding national narratives of Korea, China and Japan and taking the transnational and immanent perspective of migrants and ethnic minorities, this paper aims to highlight conflicts between the transnational subaltern who desperately sought for their ‘place in the world’ with cross-border migration and the sovereign states which mobilized, regulated or dispossessed the migrant population with biopolitical security mechanisms of its own. Even though Korean refugees’ pursuit for safety led them to temporarily cooperate with the national harmony policy of Manchuquo, their fundamental orientation as migrants was political autonomy, cultural self-representation and peaceful cohabitation with different ethnic nations. Examination of Korean migrants in Manchuria can pave a way for new imagination of diasporic nations (‘dissemi- nations’), which cannot be reduced to any state-nation nor the colonial nationalism of Korea.
KW - Immigrant;Colonizer;Refugee;Colonial Koreans in Manchuria;Su-gil An;Lytton Report
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.203
ER -

Young Shil Yoon. (2020). Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 77(1), 203-247.

Young Shil Yoon. 2020, "Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.77, no.1 pp.203-247. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.203

Young Shil Yoon "Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 77.1 pp.203-247 (2020) : 203.

Young Shil Yoon. Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’. 2020; 77(1), 203-247. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.203

Young Shil Yoon. "Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 77, no.1 (2020) : 203-247.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.203

Young Shil Yoon. Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 77(1), 203-247. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.203

Young Shil Yoon. Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2020; 77(1) 203-247. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.203

Young Shil Yoon. Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’. 2020; 77(1), 203-247. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.203

Young Shil Yoon. "Immigrant, Colonizer or Refugee: Colonial Korean Farmers in Manchuria and Their ‘Place in the World’" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 77, no.1 (2020) : 203-247.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.77.1.202002.203