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Volume 83 – No. 3

Mobility Decision-Making and New Diasporic Spaces: Conceptualizing Korean Diasporas in the Post-Soviet Space

Igor Saveliev

Keywords: Russian Koreans, Sakhalin Koreans, Korean diaspora, diasporic space, post-authoritarian society, mobility decision-making

DOI: 10.5509/2010833481

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Over half a million ethnic Koreans found themselves in the post-Soviet states after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Caught up in the political and economic transformation of these countries, they faced the necessity of constructing their own strategies for survival and resettlement. Briefly explaining the formation of Russian Koreans’ primary diasporas in their historical context and focusing on the diasporians’ mobility in the post-Soviet era, this study will show how the destruction of the constraints of the authoritarian period together with the collapse of the regime itself affects diasporas and enlarges the spaces available to them. Addressing the issue of the diaporians’ relationship to place and space, this article attempts to contribute to the conceptualization of the construction of new diasporic spaces and the discussion of mobility decision making, suggesting that diasporians, who had been long deprived by various constraints of the right to choose their place of residence, have comparatively high mobility and construct newer, much more sophisticated and far-flung diasporic layers.

移動決策和新的離散空間:概念化後蘇聯空間裏的高麗離散群體

1991年蘇聯解體之後,超過五十萬的高麗人發現他們生活在後蘇聯國家裡。 身處這些國家的政治經濟變革之中,他們面臨著構建自己的生存和居留策略的必要性。通過簡要介紹俄羅斯高麗人主要離散群體形成的歷史背景,尤其是離散人群在 後蘇聯時代的移動性,本研究顯示了極權主義時期限制的瓦解和制度本身的崩潰對離散群體的影響,以及這些變化如何拓展了他們的生存空間。本文就離散群體與地 域及空間的關係的討論試圖對概念化新離散空間和移動性決策的研究有所貢獻。本文指出,這些被各種限制長期剝奪其選擇居住地權利的離散群體,現在擁有了相對 較大的移動性,並構建起新的更成熟而廣布的離散層次。

La versatilité des prises de décision et les nouveaux espaces des diasporas: la conceptualisation des diasporas coréennes dans l’espace post-soviétique

Plus d’un demi-million de Coréens ethniques en provenance des états post-soviétiques se sont rassemblés après l’effondrement de l’Union-soviétique de 1991. Surpris par la transformation économique et sociale de ces pays, ces diasporas ont dû faire face à la nécessité d’établir leurs propres stratégies de survie et d’implentation. Grâce à un exposé sur la formation des premières diasporas des Coréens-russes dans leur contexte historique et en se focalisant sur la mobilité des diasporas de l’époque post-soviétique, cette étude démontre brièvemement comment avec l’effondrement du régime l’abolition des restrictions d’une période autocratique affecta les populations diasporiques et a élargit les espaces en leur faveur. En adressant le problème des relations des diasporas sur le lieu et l’espace, cet article tente à contribuer à l’idée de nouveaux espaces diasporiques et au débat sur la versalité des prises de décision, suggérant que les diasporas, qui furent, dû à diverses contraintes, longtemps privées du droit de choisir leur lieu de résidence, ont en comparaison une plus grande mobilité et un agencement récents, plus complexes et bien éloignés des strates diasporiques.

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