Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
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National Identity and Solidarity among Zainichi Korean Youths with "Chosen-seki"
Hong Jang LEE
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2010 Volume 61 Issue 2 Pages 168-185

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The report aims at considering how national identity of Zainichi Koreans who have "Chosen nationality" (Chosen-seki)should be taken as well as demonstrating what kind of strategy he or she devises and how contends with eyes of oversight and exclusion by trying to overcome political/social situation they have been forced to accept, through interviews with persons in young generation with "Chosen nationality".
People with "Chosen nationality" have been consistently treated as objects to be controlled and have been unilaterally defined as "stateless" or "North Korean nation" while legal status for Zainichi Koreans has varied. However, it doesn't mean that people with "Chosen nationality" have lived a passive life consistently under such management structure. They're trying to reinterpret as well as to create positive meaning for "Chosen nationality" they have maintained by themselves while attracting various types of eyes. And they always practice it in the course of everyday communication with different others such as Japanese, koreans with Japanese nationality and "double". Therefore, it is possible to learn a possibility to establish "opened solidarity without any property of power" based on daily life by seeking for establishment of solidarity over "Chosen nationality" problem.
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