Manufacturing Kinship in a Nation Divided: An Ethnographic Study of North Korean Refugees in South Korea

Bell, Markus

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Manufacturing Kinship in a Nation Divided: An Ethnographic Study of North Korean Refugees in South Korea

Date

2013

Authors

Bell, Markus

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

The South Korean government continues to practice variants of what Stephan Castles (1995) calls 'differential exclusion', in which citizenship in the nation state for North Koreans does not confer membership in civil society. For new arrivals from North K