S usie W oo . Framed by War

Given the works by Catherine Ceniza Choy, SooJin Pate, Ji-Yeon Yuh, Grace M. Cho, and many others, it might seem that the pre-1965 history of the mass migration to the United States of South Korean children and women has already been told. Susie Woo’s monograph, Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire, proves this is not yet the case. Woo addresses the migration history that followed the Korean War from a transnational and postcolonial feminist perspective by simultaneously looking at the so-called push and pull factors and framing it within the rise of the postwar US empire. Woo’s well-written and well-researched study consists of three parts, each focused on a different aspect of the mass migration of Korean women and children to the United States. In part 1, Woo addresses how war stricken South Korea and its children became imagined as an orphaned...

Ancient history · Empire · Framing (construction) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies