Zainichi Koreans and Mental Health : Psychiatric Problem in Japanese Korean Minorities, Their Social Background and Life Story Paperback / softback
by Taeyoung (Toyo University, Japan) Kim
Part of the Routledge Contemporary Japan Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
Using a qualitative, interview-based approach, Kim investigates how conflicting identities and social marginalization affect the mental health of members of the ethnic Korean minority living in Japan.
So-called “Zainichi” Koreans living in Japan have a higher suicide rate than native Japanese, or than any other ethnic group within Japan, a country which has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
Considering themselves neither truly Korean nor wholly Japanese, they are mainly descendants of immigrants who came to Japan during the colonial period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Kim explores the challenges facing these individuals, including the dilemmas of ethnic education, the discrimination against them by mainstream society, and the consequent impacts on their mental health.
An insightful read both for scholars of Japanese culture and society and for anthropologists and sociologists with an interest in the effects of marginalization on ethnic minority citizens more broadly.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:118 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:25/09/2023
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- ISBN:9781032010830
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:118 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:25/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032010830
