Ethnic return migration and hierarchical nationhood: Korean Chinese foreign workers in South Korea

Ethnicities

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-174

  Seol, Dong Hoon ^a   Skrentny, John D ^b  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Citizenship; Immigration policy; Korea; Migrant workers; Nationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 66949152910     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796808099901     Document Type: Article

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