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Roughly 10,000 Korean nurses and 6000 miners came to former West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. Forty years later, some of them decided to go back to Korea, where they built their own homes in the newly founded German Village (Dokil Mauel). In keeping with its name, all homes had to be built to look “German.” Roberts analyzes the portrayal and self-portrayal of inhabitants of this village in Cho Sung-Hyung’s documentary Endstation der Sehnsüchte (Final Station of Yearnings, 2009) and various newspaper articles on Dokil Mauel. Thus, the reader gains a view of various characteristics they perceive to be national (i.e., specifically German or specifically Korean) and how their new homes have come to represent their (acquired) German heritage and culture.
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Roberts, S. (2018). Endstation der Sehnsüchte: Home-Making of Return Gastarbeiter Migrants. In: Cho, J., Roberts, L. (eds) Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea. Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95224-3_12
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