Full Description
In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world's most secretive state—North Korea. Through vivid ethnographic details and interviews with North Korean escapees, Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea reveals the driving forces that propelled thousands of ordinary people to risk it all in Kim Il-Sung's "Worker's Paradise", only to escape back to Japan half a century later.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Text and Confidentiality
Introduction: When There's Nothing Left
Chapter 1. Remembering the Exodus
Chapter 2. Marriage and Mobility
Chapter 3. Becoming a Foreigner in North Korea
Chapter 4. Choosing Japan
Chapter 5. Freedom, the Impossible Gift
Chapter 6. Mobility, Memory, and the Fractured Self
Conclusion: Reimagining Refugees: From Crisis to Solution in Modern Japan
Appendix: Notes on Methodology
References
Index
