North Korean Escapees’ Unthinkable Journeys and the Conceptual Binaries of Migration Policy

Abstract

There is a lack of empirical interview data on escapees from North Korea and the aim of this thesis is to address this omission. At a theoretical level, this thesis is concerned with North Korean escapees' cross-border mobility to South Korea through a third country. It explores how North Koreans' migration, often popularly described as the `Underground Railroad', is undertaken through smuggling networks, documenting both the process of smuggling and the structure of its networks.

Date of Award	28 Nov 2019
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	University of Bristol
Supervisor	Katharine A H Charsley (Supervisor) & Julia N O'Connell Davidson (Supervisor)