“Who will love you if they have to look after you?”: Sakhalin Koreans Caring from a Distance

Religion and the Politics of Development

“…From the point of view of donor-beneficiary politics, this means that Russian-Asian congregations are situated as one node between and within multiple global flows, rather than simply being the Eastern recipient of Western largesse. For instance, in Russia's Far East where there are communities of Sakhalin Koreans who were forced to migrate to Russia by the Japanese government during the 1930s and 1940s, financial and social support from within this community as well as from the Korean and Japanese governments circulate back and forth across borders through multigenerational networks, especially as elderly Sakhalin Koreans return to South Korea for retirement subsidised by the Korean government (Szawarska 2013).…”