Looking for a Safe Haven : An Ethnographic Research on the Transnational Networking strategies of North Korean Migrant(Defector) Families in South Korea and Japan

最近，我们重新访问了居住在日本和韩国的朝鲜叛逃者。这些受访者大多数是居住在朝鲜再教育机构（Hana-won）的朝鲜人或居住在日本的150人。由于他们中的大多数人希望保持他们的出身秘密，我们不能透露他们的身份在这份报告中保护我们的线人的隐私和安全。从这些采访中，我们发现，朝鲜叛逃者不满意他们住的地方看起来更安全的地方生活。超过一半的人对我们说，他们想移民到日本或韩国以外的国家。其中一个原因是，他们作为脱北者在这两个国家生活很困难，特别是那些生活在日本的人，美国成为最受欢迎的第三国。这主要是因为美国开始接受朝鲜叛逃者作为寻求庇护者。九月2004年，《保护人权法》 ...更多信息 这项立法使许多在韩国和日本的朝鲜叛逃者能够寻求“美国梦”。因此，我们未来的重要课题是弄清有机会叛逃到美国学习的朝鲜人如何建立网络，以及他们如何改变与居住在韩国、日本或中国的家人的关系。令人惊讶的是，一半居住在日本的受访者对我们说，如果不受到惩罚，他们想回到朝鲜。他们说在日本定居对他们来说太难了。这就是为什么他们在中国或其他第三国从事无休止的网络活动，寻找“避风港”。我们很高兴与您分享这些发现。我们将尽一切努力与朝鲜叛逃者研究协会交流研究结果。我们希望通过这些研究，与其他希望了解居住在日本的朝鲜叛逃者家庭的研究人员和从业人员分享这些发现。我希望这种跨学科的努力将对探讨我们的下一个主题非常有益：“如何支持朝鲜叛逃者自我支持”。少

Recently, we revisited North Korean defectors living in Japan and Korea. Most of these interviewees are North Koreans who are living in the Reeducation-institution (Hana-won) far North Korean or those of 150 who are living in Japan. Due to the fact that most of them want to keep their origin secret, we could not reveal their identity in this report protect our informant's privacy and safety.From these interviews, we found that North Korean defectors were not satisfied with where they live looking far safer place to live. More than half of them said to us that they wanted to migrate to the countries other than Japan or South Korea. One of the reasons was that it was difficult for them to live as North Korean defectors in the two countries, especially those who are living in Japan.Unite States has become the most preferred third country. It is mostly due to the fact that the United states started accepting North Korean defectors as asylum seeker. On Sept. 2004, The Law of Human Rights fo … More r North Korea was enacted, this legislation enabled many North Korean defectors in South Korea and Japan to seek "American Dream". It is, therefore, our future important subject to clarify how the North Korean people, who had an opportunity far defecting and going for study to USA, create the network and how they change the relation with their own families, who are living in Korea, Japan, or China.Surprisingly, half of interviewees living in Japan said to us that, if not punished, they want to go back to North Korea. They said it was too difficult far them to settle down in Japan. This is why they are engaged in endless networking activities with their connections in China or other third countries looking for a "Safe Haven".It has been our pleasure to share these findings with you. We will make every effort to exchange the research findings with the North Korean Defectors Research Association. Through this we hope to share these findings with other researchers and practitioners who wants to understand North Korean defector families living in Japan. I wish this interdisciplinary effort will be very instructive for inquiring into our next theme : "How to support the North Korean defectors to their self-support". Less