IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/asiaps/v2y2015i2p399-415.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Twenty Years' Evolution of North Korean Migration, 1994–2014: A Human Security Perspective

Author

Listed:
  • Ji-young Song

Abstract

Over the past two decades, there have been notable changes in North Korean migration: from forced migration to trafficking in women, from heroic underground railways to people smuggling by Christian missionaries. The migration has taken mixed forms of asylum seeking, human trafficking, undocumented labour migration and people smuggling. The paper follows the footsteps of North Korean migrants from China through Southeast Asia to South Korea, and from there to the United Kingdom, to see the dynamic correlation between human (in)security and irregular migration. It analyses how individual migrant's agency interacts with other key actors in the migration system and eventually brings about emerging patterns of four distinctive forms of irregular migration in a macro level. It uses human security as its conceptual framework that is a people-centred, rather than state- or national security-centric approach to irregular migration.

Suggested Citation

  • Ji-young Song, 2015. "Twenty Years' Evolution of North Korean Migration, 1994–2014: A Human Security Perspective," Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 2(2), pages 399-415, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:asiaps:v:2:y:2015:i:2:p:399-415
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1002/app5.82
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Kanti Bajpai, 2003. "The Idea of Human Security," International Studies, , vol. 40(3), pages 195-228, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Kim, Eun Mee & Bae, Seon Young & Shin, Ji Hyun, 2015. "Human Security in Practice: The Case of South Korea," Working Papers 93, JICA Research Institute.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:asiaps:v:2:y:2015:i:2:p:399-415. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=2050-2680 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.