Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea
ISBN: 9780801462818
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Social and Cultural Anthropology Regional Anthropology;

This book depicts acts of "counterfeit kinship," false documents, and abandoning spouses and children as strategies implemented by disenfranchised people in China and Korea to gain mobility within the region's changing political economy.


Caren Freeman is Director of Studies at Hereford Residential College and works in the International Studies Office at the University of Virginia.

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