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Living dangerously in two worlds: the risks and strategies of North Korean children in China Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE NORTH KOREANS CHILDREN FAMINE BORDER CROSSERS CHILD REFUGEES PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS HUMAN RIGHTS This paper examines the structural causes of the continuous influx of the North Korean refugee children into China and their experiences in the two contrasting worlds from a comparative perspective. Many of the wandering children become habitual border-crossers to feed their families and to save themselves from a forced return. Under extreme hardship and fear, they develop transnational strategies and tactics to help them cope with the sharp contrasts in material conditions and cultural messages between the two countries. Their childhoods under such marginal conditions leaves them at serious risk, and many of them bear deep psychological scars as a result. However, by becoming independent at a young age, they function as active ages for social change with a critical awareness grown from their contrasting experiences in two worlds. 2026-09-30T11:52:20Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33357978.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Living_dangerously_in_two_worlds_the_risks_and_strategies_of_North_Korean_children_in_China/33357978 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0