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Special issue: Home and Away: Modern Korean Identities and Minorities

From colonization to Zaitokukai: the legacy of racial oppression in the lives of Koreans in Japan

Xavier Robillard-MartelDepartment of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0854-3347View further author information
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Christopher LaurentDepartment of Anthropology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 393-412 | Received 24 Aug 2018, Accepted 17 Jan 2019, Published online: 16 Feb 2019

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