“Outstanding – academically excellent, full of new research findings, theoretically sophisticated and very well written.” • Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Australian National University

In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world’s most secretive state—North Korea. Through vivid ethnographic details and interviews with North Korean escapees, Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea reveals the driving forces that propelled thousands of ordinary people to risk it all in Kim Il-Sung’s “Worker’s Paradise”, only to escape back to Japan half a century later.

Series: Volume 42, Forced Migration

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Area: Asia

LC: DS933.3.J3 B45 2021

BISAC: SOC007000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Emigration & Immigration; SOC008020 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Ethnic Studies/Asian Studies