Nostalgia, Anxiety and Hope: Migration and Ethnic Identity of <i>Chosonjok</i> in China

Kim, Wang-Bae

doi:10.5509/201083195

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“…He proposed that, in the context of an unfamiliar and potentially hostile host country, “linking objects” (e.g., songs associated with the homeland) and associated feelings of nostalgia become the core features of a collective identity. Kim (2010) reported that Korean immigrants to China expressed nostalgia about a collective way of living that they perceived to be threatened by the necessity to compete with the Han Chinese majority. Similarly, the “Red nostalgia” (i.e., nostalgia for the communist past) in some Eastern European countries may have key identity-affirming functions in a rapidly changing social and political environment (Blum, 2000; Gherghina & Klymenko, 2012; Velikonja, 2009).…”

Section: Collective Nostalgiamentioning

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Collective nostalgia: A group-level emotion that confers unique benefits on the group.

Wildschut¹,

Bruder²,

Robertson³

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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This research established collective nostalgia as a group-level emotion and ascertained the benefits it confers on the group. In Study 1, participants who reflected on a nostalgic event they had experienced together with ingroup members (collective nostalgia) evaluated the ingroup more positively and reported stronger intentions to approach (and not avoid) ingroup members than those who recalled a nostalgic event they had experienced individually (personal nostalgia), those who reflected on a lucky event they had experienced together with ingroup members (collective positive), and those who did not recall an event (no recall). In Study 2, collective (vs. personal) nostalgia strengthened behavioral intentions to support the ingroup more so than did recalling an ordinary collective (vs. personal) event. Increased collective self-esteem mediated this effect. In Study 3, collective nostalgia (compared to recalling an ordinary collective event) led participants to sacrifice money in order to punish a transgression perpetrated against an ingroup member. This effect of collective nostalgia was more pronounced when social identification was high (compared to low). Finally, in Study 4, collective nostalgia converged toward the group average (i.e., was socially shared) when participants thought of themselves in terms of their group membership. The findings underscore the viability of studying nostalgia at multiple levels of analysis and highlight the significance of collective nostalgia for understanding group-level attitudes, global action tendencies, specific behavioral intentions, and behavior.

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Section: Collective Nostalgiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective nostalgia: A group-level emotion that confers unique benefits on the group.

Wildschut¹,

Bruder²,

Robertson³

et al. 2014

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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206

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“…79 Koreans have traditionally resisted assimilation with the Han Chinese culture and have had a strong sense of in-group solidarity, built upon common ethnic identity, the prevalence of group endogamy and shared customs. 80 It is likely that ethnic identity is still serving as a strong internal buffer, particularly in Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture, despite the pressures of external change. External buffers include strong family and community support and relatively high income, particularly compared with other ethnic minorities in China.…”

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“…81 Ethnic Korean farmers practiced centuries-old traditions of mutual aid and interdependence, such as labour sharing (ture). 82 Ethnic Koreans shared a language that was significantly different in structure from the majority Han Chinese, which served as a barrier to assimilation for ethnic Chinese adults. The strong preference for ethnic endogamy also ensured that language and traditions remained intact through successive generations.…”

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“…86 Relative to the size of their population, ethnic Koreans are over-represented in the Chinese Communist Party as cadres and in professional occupations such as the judiciary, police force and management. 87 With this success comes higher influence and wealth than enjoyed by other ethnic minorities in China, which can be used as a flexible resource to buffer against adverse negative shocks to the HPM. While migration to South Korea is threatening ethnic identity among ChineseKoreans in Northeast China, it also contributes additional resources.…”

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Personal wellbeing among ethnic Koreans in China's Northeast

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This study investigates personal wellbeing among a sample of ethnic Koreans in China's Northeast using the eight-item Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI). The PWI demonstrated good psychometric properties, consistent with previous studies. The data revealed a moderate level of personal wellbeing (PWI score ¼ 70.3) and the results supported the Theory of Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis, suggesting that strong external and internal buffers protect the HPM for ethnic Koreans, despite the onslaught of marketisation and urbanisation in China that are threatening to undermine Koreans' sense of ethnic identity. The predictors of personal wellbeing were found to be age (with a nonlinear relationship), education, gender, income, marital status and the city in which the individual lives.

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“…The rural areas of Yanbian from out of which Chosŏnjok flowed in large numbers, abandoning the land, have also been taken over by the Han Chinese (see Chang 2008; Dongpo 2011, para. 13; Chŏngryong Kim 2010).…”

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Uncanny Hybridity and Nostalgia Politics inThe Yellow Sea

Rhee¹

2017

J of Asian Stud

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This article analyzes the ways that Korean Chinese migrants are exploited aesthetically in their ancestral homeland by focusing on their mass-media refiguration. These return migrants, or the Chosŏnjok, have been received by their South Korean co-ethnics into what may be called a “hierarchical nationhood.” The strategies of temporal displacement, this article contends, are employed in South Korean cinema and television dramas in order to contain the uncanny cultural difference embodied by these ethnic returnees. As a result, a certain sense of belatedness is inscribed on the bodies of these migrants. If this temporal refiguration wards off the psychological discomfort of dealing with difference in the midst of sameness, it may be said at the same time to fetishize its object within an archaic constellation that South Koreans find endearing, yet disturbingly absent, from their highly consumerist contemporary society. In attempting to delineate the “nostalgia politics,” the article aims to shed light on the function of certain mass media representations, including Hongjin Na's movie The Yellow Sea, in the context of the socioeconomic realities of South Korea.

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Nostalgia, Anxiety and Hope: Migration and Ethnic Identity of Chosonjok in China

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Collective nostalgia: A group-level emotion that confers unique benefits on the group.

Collective nostalgia: A group-level emotion that confers unique benefits on the group.

Personal wellbeing among ethnic Koreans in China's Northeast

Uncanny Hybridity and Nostalgia Politics inThe Yellow Sea

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