Nation-states in the age of transnationalism: Korea’s effort to build a de-territorialised nation and to promote long-distance nationalism among its Diaspora  

(School of Asian Studies)

8 May 2012

4pm

Venue: Room 501 (Pat Hanan Room), Arts 2 (Building 207)

Host: Dr Changzoo Song

By the end of the 1990s, the South Korean Government virtually extended citizenship rights to overseas co-ethnics and recently, enfranchised its overseas nationals they can participate in national elections. Nation-states such as South Korea, in the face of a rapidly aging population, dwindling fertility rates, and continued emigration of middle-class families, do not seem to have a choice but to go ‘de-territorial’ and promote long-distance nationalism among its co-ethnics overseas.

Drinks and snacks to follow.

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