80 police station is going to come for a raid, you are contacted in advance from somewhere. So you hide in someone else’s house. When they come to an empty house and see nobody’s there, they leave again. But, apparently, once they’ve received a report they cannot disregard it but must go to arrest people. Because otherwise they themselves get into trouble. ... When there’s talk about a raid coming up, they hide you in this house, and you have children and carry on with your life, but only my oldest daughter hasn’t been caught yet. That is, recently, the people in this neighbourhood, people from these houses that brought in &orth Korean women to live with them, have wildly filed complaints protesting that it’s all the same &orth Koreans, but why are they not arrested and taken away from others’ houses but only from theirs. (Mun Gyeongsun 2009, 1-1) In a month [you change] houses around 5 times, around once every week, you live in this house and then again in another house. Another house. It had become a situation in which you cannot live if you don’t move and live like this. … When you make the mistake of leaving the house and going outside at the wrong time, many were arrested. People in Cheongdo or other places seem not to have experienced this. But for us, when we were living in Jangchun, to live in hiding really was too difficult. (Hwang Sunjeong 2009, 1-1) In just one night, at that time there were around 100 &orth Korean women who were arrested, I believe. That is, they said they arrested everyone. In our village when I heard the news later I was told that they were all sent back, in our village it was me and another woman who were arrested, but all [the others] were sent back. You know, that woman’s child and my child were both [three] months old. But let’s say, for example, if I arrived in this house, the police came and said that &orth Korean women have to pay a fine, and we paid the fine, because of the fine they said they let you get away with it. Other &orth Korean women who weren’t well off and couldn’t pay the fine were not let off, those who paid were let off, that’s how they did it. … All the time [you hear]news about &orth Korean women being arrested, how they arrested them in one village, and when you wake up the next day [you hear] how things went in yet another village, because you hear such stories you are always afraid. You can’t stay at home. That’s why from then on I followed my husband around. (Gil Gyeonghui 2009, 1-7) Since Hwang Sunjeong (2009, 1-1) lived together with her family, she was not sold off to a farm village like other North Korean refugee women who had come to China alone. In return, she had to move house with her family once every week. On the other hand, North Korean refugee women living in farm villages repeatedly went into hiding in other places whenever there was news of crackdowns, and returned home afterwards. But once these means of repeated escapes were also reported to the police, they could not remain in these places any longer. Women who had relatives in China were forced to move from one relative’s home to another, in times of severe crackdowns sometimes hiding for several months and restarting work afterwards; this became their repetitive everyday life. But, when