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Zainichi Koreans and Mental Health: Psychiatric Problem in Japanese Korean Minorities, Their Social Background and Life Story

Zainichi Koreans and Mental Health: Psychiatric Problem in Japanese Korean Minorities, Their Social Background and Life Story

Kim, Taeyoung

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan

Death & DyingGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesMental Health

ISBN10: 1032010827
ISBN13: 9781032010823
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 27 2021
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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