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Caren Freeman. Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press (2011). 280 pages, ISBN 978-0801449581.
Caren Freeman's Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea makes an engaging addition to the growing anthropological literature on cross-border marriage and labor migration in East Asia. Freeman conducted nineteen months of ethnographic fieldwork from 1998 to 2000 in South Korea and Heilongj iang Province, China among Chosonjok-ethnic Koreans from northeastern China. In this account, Freeman focuses on "[bjringing the transnational family-making practices of migrant brides and laborers together in one ethnographic frame ... to explore the interconnections and challenge the dichotomies between marriage and labor migration, nation-building and kinship-making projects, legal and illegal border crossings" (7). The result is an excellent ethnography...