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This edited collection investigates the mobilities, resettlement practices, and identities of North Korean defectors who have relocated to the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and South Korea. The contributors to this volume examine the complex nature of defection from North Korea, highlighting the ways in which defectors renegotiate their identities in order to adapt and settle in new societies as well as the implications these differing narratives have on future policy decisions.

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Much has been told and written about the plight of North Koreans escaping from the DPRK. Concerned observers assume their story ends when they have arrived in South Korea. Disillusioned with and faced discrimination in South Korean society, many have left South Korea for Japan and Western countries. Based on carefully designed ethnographic research, this excellent edited volume provides a comparative look at North Korean defectors in South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It explores their struggle to reimagine their identity among other diasporic communities as a result of repeated mobilities.--Apichai W. Shipper, Georgetown University This informative collection provides very rare, sophisticated accounts of North Koreans' post-defection lives in various destinations. A must-read for those who want to understand the variegated configuration of North Korean defectors' identity in their transnational journey.--Kyung Hoon Leem, Seoul National University

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HaeRan Shin is professor of geography at Seoul National University.

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