This article explores the situations of people living at the China-North Korea borderland. Contrary to the general understanding of North Korean migrants – as victims of the North Korean brutal state and economic impoverishment – many North Koreans at the Sino-North Korea borderland cross the border (a border river) as a matter of everyday practice. This article thus contests the general restrictive stereotypes that frame North Korean mobility, and argues that many of them are calculative agents actively balancing the costs and benefits of migration. A decision of migration often takes into account North Koreans’ spatial perception, intimate human network of relatives, and sense of familiarity with language, feelings and emotions for place and people, with little reference to the political persecution or economic deprivation usually depicted by the media.

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流动的朝鲜妇女及其在中朝边境的地位

这篇文章探讨了生活在中朝边境地区的人们的情况。与朝鲜移民的普遍理解相反——他们是朝鲜残酷的国家和经济贫困的受害者——许多在中朝边境的朝鲜人过境（一条边界河流）是日常惯例。因此，本文对构成朝鲜流动性的一般限制性刻板印象提出质疑，并认为他们中的许多人是积极平衡移民成本和收益的计算代理人。移民的决定往往考虑到朝鲜人的空间感知、亲密的人际网络以及对语言的熟悉感、对地方和人的感受和情感，