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Week V:
April 29th and May 1st
Co-ethnic Transnational Migration
Wednesday
:Take-home midterm due on Canvas by 11:59PM (no class).
Friday: Korean Marriage and Family, South Korean Demographic Crisis, and the "Korean Wind" in Northeast China
Discussion:
- Is there really a "demographic crisis" in South Korea, or could a fall in population be good?
- Is international migration and good thing, or bad?
Reading: (summary optional):
- Caren Freeman, Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea. (Cornell University Press, 2011), Part I: Migrant Brides and the Pact of Gender, Kinship, Nation.
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