Keywords
human rights
political oppression
displacement
adaptation
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Abstract
This article delves into the complex crisis of North Korean defectors and refugees. First, it explores the human rights situation and the humanitarian crisis in North Korea, as well as the difficulty to properly assess the situation given the lack of sources. Second, it analyses political oppression and famine as the main reasons behind displacement and describes the dramatic journey faced by defectors, which is marked by illegality, exploitation and the risk of deportation in China. At last, it focuses on the hardships defectors face in the process of adapting to South Korean society.
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Bell, Markus, “North Korean Refugees and the Challenges of Failed Assimilation”, nknews.org, 2 de septiembre de 2012. [nknews.org/2012/09/north-korean-refugees-and-the-challenges-of-failed-assimilation/, consultado el 17 de septiembre de 2013.]
Cho A-ra, “Tragic Fate of North Korean Defectors”, Vantage Point, vol. 36, núm. 9, 2013.
Congressional-Executive Commision on China, Annual Report, Washington, US Government, 2013.
Demick, Barbara, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Nueva York, Spiegel & Grau, 2010.
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