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South Korean Migrants in China
This chapter frames the central questions and key concepts that this book
aims to examine. First and foremost, migrant education is regarded as
a lens through which to assess South Korean migrants’ socio-political
positionality in China. I adopt ‘in-between’ as an analytical framework
to elaborate on the subjective and structural aspects of this positionality.
Furthermore, ‘educational desire’ among Korean migrants illustrates how
they respond to the temporariness generated by the education-migration
regimes of both China and Korea. Viewing Koreans as a new wave of
foreigners in China, I also examine their identities and practices in the
unique context of Chinese internationalisation. Meanwhile, these migrants
are also observed to be a novel form of Korean diaspora, and one that has
become globalized.
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