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Sung and Cho (2018) Why Are North Korean Women More Likely to Defect than North Korean Men?

Sung, Kieun and Cho, Sunwoong. (2018). Why Are North Korean Women More Likely to Defect than North Korean Men?. Asian Women, 34(3), 97-118. 1. IntroductionThis study shows that gendered defection is an unexpected consequence of North Korean government policies that generate favorable conditions for defection by North Korean females. The interplay between the strict military draft system targetin..

Sung (2010) The psychiatric power of neo-liberal citizenship: the North Korean human rights crisis, North Korean settlers, and incompetent citizens

Sung, M. (2010). The psychiatric power of neo-liberal citizenship: the North Korean human rights crisis, North Korean settlers, and incompetent citizens. Citizenship Studies, 14(2), 127–144. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621021003594783 1. IntroductionThe spectacularly circulated miserable images of starving North Koreans have helped facilitate the claim of liberal human rights, encouraging South Ko..

Song (2013) “Smuggled Refugees”: The Social Construction of North Korean Migration

Song, J. (2013), “Smuggled Refugees”: The Social Construction of North Korean Migration. Int Migr, 51: 158-173. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12033 The exact figure of North Koreans in China is unknown. The PRC government estimates 10,000–50,000; the ROK claims30,000–50,000; the US State Department says 75,000–125,000; the Uni ted Nations High Commissioner for Refugees(UNHCR) opts for 50,000–100,..

Kim (2016) Mobile North Korean women and their places in the Sino-North Korea borderland

Kim, S. K. (2016). Mobile North Korean women and their places in the Sino-North Korea borderland. Asian Anthropology, 15(2), 116–131. https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2016.1215540 1. IntroductionNorth Korean mobility tends to be narrowly framed in relation to either brutal state vio lations or severe economic crisis, the so-called “Arduous March” (1995–1998) (Aldrich 2011).1 Within this frame, N..

Choi (2014) North Korean Women’s Narratives of Migration: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses of Trafficking and Geopolitics

Choi, E. (2014). North Korean Women’s Narratives of Migration: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses of Trafficking and Geopolitics. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(2), 271–279. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2013.862129  1. IntroductionAccording to the former director of the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, between 80 and 90 percen..

Davis (2006) Brides, Bruises and the Border: The Trafficking of North Korean Women into China

Davis, Kathleen (2006). Brides, Bruises and the Border: The Trafficking of North Korean Women into China. The SAIS Review of International Affairs, 26(1), 131–141. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26999303 1. IntroductionOf those North Koreans entering China, it is believed that more than 80–90 percent of the women become trafficking victims [131] 2. North Korea’s Downward Spiral and China’s Upward ..