Mikwi Cho – Koreans across the Sea: Migration of Laborers to the Metropole, 1910–1937 (pages 161-200)

Abstract
This paper is concerned with Korean farmers who were transformed into laborers during the Korean colonial period and migrated to Japan to enhance their living conditions. The author’s research adopts a regional scale to its investigation in which the emergence of Osaka as a global city attracted Koreans seeking economic betterment. The paper shows that, despite an initial claim to permit ...