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Abstract

In the early 1990s, South Korea experienced a turning point in its migration pattern, transitioning from a nation of emigration to immigration. Joining in this immigration flow were diaspora Koreans, whose “return” was largely influenced by the nation’s shifting geopolitical relationships, economic prosperity, and global visibility. In Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration, Ji-Yeon O. Jo provides a framework for understanding legacy migration through the concept of transborder belongings; this expresses the topography of social, legal, lingual, and familial borders across transborder spaces.