"Smuggled Refugees": The Social Construction of North Korean Migration

• Main Author: SONG, Jiyoung
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: women identity; North Korea; social constructionism; identity transformation; Asian Studies; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1384; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2640/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, I demonstrate the identity transformation of North Korean women in interaction with state and non-state actors and domestic and regional structures, which I formulate for the purposes of this paper. From a state-centric social constructivist perspective in politics and international r...