Review: Asia: Korean Endgame
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200205700416 |
| Date | 01 December 2002 |
| Published date | 01 December 2002 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
The
last
section
of
the book
looks at
how
recent changes
in
Asia's
political
economy
have
influenced
migration.
Anru
Lee's
excellent
arti-
cle
on
Thai migrant
workers
in
Taiwan
shows
that
foreign
female
workers
have
been
admitted
into
Asian
societies
in
part
to
stem
rising
production
costs.
Foreign
workers
are
then
subject
to
the
laws
of
the
state:
in
Taiwan,
they
are
allowed
to
remain
with
one
company
for
two
years,
after
which
they
must
return
to
their
home
country; they
are
not
permitted
to
marry
Taiwanese
citizens.
Christina Gilmartin and
Lin
Tan
study
the dynamics
of
rural
Chinese
women
who migrate
within
their country
seeking
a
marriage
partner,
and
Janet
Saleff
notes
that,
despite
class
differences,
Hong
Kong
women consistently
established
networks
to
facilitate
the migration
process.
The
omission
of
Japan
and
Vietnam
from
a
book
about
East
Asia
is
odd.
Japan
has
played
a
key
role
in
shaping
economic
development in
the
region,
and
it
has
received
immigrants
from
other
parts
of
Asia
and
the
world.
Also,
area
studies approaches
may
not
be
the
best
way
to
explore
the
relationship
between
development and
gender.
Comparative
analyses
of
Asian
and
non-Asian developing
countries
would
provide
additional
insight
into
the
complexities
surrounding
the gendered
process
of
development
as
a
whole.
Even
so,
this
book
makes
an
important
contribution
to
our
knowledge
about
the
role
of
gender
in
configuring patterns
of
migration
and
development.
KOREAN
ENDGAME
A strategy
for
reunification
and
U.S.
disengagement
Selig
S.
Harrison
Princeton:
Princeton
University
Press,
2002, 4
09pp,
us$29.95,
ISBN
0-
691-09604-x
According
to
former
President
Jimmy Carter,
Harrison's
book
'is
the
best
analysis
I
have
seen
of
the difficult
policy
choices facing
the
United
States
in
Korea.'
These
are
strong
words
of
praise
from
a
senior
statesman
who
travelled
to
Pyongyang
in
June
1994
to
defuse
escalat-
ing
tensions
between the
United
States
and
North
Korea
that
could
have
led
to
a
second
Korean
War. Korean
Endgame
was
sponsored
by
the
Century
Fund
(formerly
the
Twentieth
Century
Fund),
a
non-par-
tisan
liberal
organization
in
the
United
States.
The
author
has
worked
for
the
Washington
Postas
bureau
chief
in
northeast
Asia
and
south
Asia
and
has
written
widely
on
contemporary
Asian
affairs.
He
knows
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