Download or read book Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites written by Sung-Choon Park and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining privileged and highly skilled Asian migrants, such as international students who acquire legal permanent residency in the United States, this book registers and traces these transnational figures as racialized transnational elites and illuminates the intersectionality and reconfiguration of race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Using in-depth interviews with Korean international students in New York City and Koreans in South Korea as a case study, this book argues that racialized transnational elites are embedded in racial and ethnic dynamics in the United States as well as in class and nationalist conflicts with non-migrant co-ethnics in the sending country. Sung-Choon Park further argues that strategic responses to the local, social dynamics shape transnational practices such as diaspora-building, transfer of knowledge, conversion of cultural capital, and cross-border communication about race, causing heterogeneous social consequences in both societies.
Download or read book Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea written by Sung-Choon Park and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea: Across National Boundaries examines the intersections of race, class, gender and inequalities in global migration in contemporary South Korea. The contributors explore South Korean migration policies and study diverse migrants living and working in South Korea as low-wage undocumented workers, refugees, Korean returnees, migrant women married to Korean men, and white professionals. The chapters in this collection make visible the differentiation and divergence of migration experiences due to race, class, gender, and place of origin, which are all also mediated by local inequalities in South Korea.
Download or read book Koreatowns written by Jinwon Kim and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection defines Koreatowns as spatial configurations that concentrate elements of “Korea” demographically, economically, politically, and culturally. The contributors provide exploratory accounts and critical evaluations of Koreatowns in different countries throughout the world. Ranging from familiar settings such as Los Angeles and New York City, to more unfamiliar locales such as Singapore, Beijing, Mexico, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and the American Midwest, this collection not only examines the social characteristics and contours of these spaces, but also the types of discourses and symbols that they exude.
Download or read book Korean Digital Diaspora written by Hojeong Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a critical examination of the Korean diaspora in transnational contexts as a case study, Korean Digital Diaspora: Transnational Social Movements and Diaspora Identity unmasks the process of how people of the diaspora have built social interactions and communication with others online, how they have orchestrated social movements, and finally, how they have narrated and reshaped their diaspora identities in their everyday lives. Utilizing an ethnographical approach, including in-depth interviews, participant observation, and a field study in New York City and Philadelphia, Hojeong Lee delineates how digital media technology has expanded into a new form of diaspora, digital diaspora, within the Korean diaspora community, and how it has mobilized the social movements of Korean diaspora members. Accordingly, Korean diaspora members have begun to imagine their community as a transnational global diaspora. Korean Digital Diaspora concludes with an analysis of how the changed attitudes of diaspora members have also influenced how they define themselves and how they are reshaping their diaspora identities. This multi-site, three-year study reveals the nexus of media, individuals, and society, highlighting the transnational social movements of diaspora members.
Download or read book Korean Wild Geese Families written by Se Hwa Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korean Wild Geese Families: Gender, Family, Social, and Legal Dynamics of Middle-Class Asian Transnational Families in North America explores the experiences of middle-class Korean transnational families, whose mothers and children migrate abroad for children’s education while fathers remain in Korea and economically support their families, throughout transnational separation: before separation, during separation, and after reunification. It discusses the themes of (1) changes in wild geese parents’ relative gender statuses, housework patterns, and spousal relationships; (2) changes in mothering/fathering practices and intergenerational relationships; and (3) wild geese families’ settlement and integration in the host societies and re-adaptation to Korea after family reunification. Se Hwa Lee interviewed mothers in both the United States and Canada, as well as fathers in Korea, to compare the effects of immigration policies between the two countries in North America and present gender-balanced explanations. Se Hwa Lee also sheds light on Asian documented immigrants’ hardships and different degrees of empowerment and incorporation in the host societies according to legal status, employment, additional education, and co-ethnic community membership. This book offers readers valuable venues to enhance their understanding of increasingly diverse transnational families in North America.
Download or read book Korean Food Television and the Korean Nation written by Jaehyeon Jeong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the historical development of Korean food TV and its articulation of Koreanness in the era of globalization. Jaehyeon Jeong defines the evolution of Korean food TV as an outcome of the conjuncture between the television industry’s structural changes, the shift in food’s landscape and cultural legitimacy, and various sociocultural, political, and economic transformations. In addition, Jeong reveals how the state appropriates the banality of food to raise South Korea’s global image and how it utilizes domestic television to disseminate statist discourse of the nation. Understanding discourses of national cuisine as reflective of and formative of discourses of the nation, he argues that the growth of discourses of national cuisine is symptomatic of the struggle for nationness in a globalized world.
Download or read book The 1 5 Generation Korean Diaspora written by Jane Yeonjae Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1.5 Generation Korean Diaspora: A Comparative Understanding of Identity, Culture, and Transnationalism provides insights into the contemporary experiences of 1.5 generation Korean immigrants around the world. By exploring Korean emigrants’ lives in host locations such as Los Angeles, Boston, Toronto, Auckland, Argentina, and Deluth, the contributors study the inherent complexities of being a 1.5 generation immigrant and show that 1.5 generation immigrants are a unique group that deserves further study. The contributors analyze key issues, such as the 1.5 generation’s identity negotiations, their occupational trajectories, the role of ethnic communities and institutions, changing values of love and marriage, the cultural tension involved in parenthood, their health needs and services, and ethnic and transnational entrepreneurship.
Download or read book Understanding Korean Americans Mental Health written by Anderson Sungmin Yoon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean American community is one of the major Asian ethnic subgroups in the United States. Though considered among one of the model minority groups, excelling academically and professionally, members in this community are plagued by unaddressed mental health obstacles. In Understanding Korean Americans’ Mental Health: A Guide to Culturally Competent Practices, Program Developments, and Policies, the editors, Anderson Sungmin Yoon, Sung Seek Moon, and Haein Son, examine a variety of mental health issues in the Korean American community, including depression, suicide, substance abuse, and trauma, and convincingly connect these challenges to cultural stigma and racial prejudice. The editors argue that this population and its mental health needs are neglected by current approaches in mainstream mental health services. Alarmingly, the very cultural values that help make up the Korean American community are contributing to its members’ reluctance to seek care, counting both familial and communal shame among the most pressing culprits. This book supports these claims with statistical realities and seeks to gather the relatively scarce research that does exist on this topic to underscore the heightened prevalence of mental health issues among Korean Americans, and the contributors make recommendations for more culturally competent practices, program developments, and policies.
Download or read book Communicating Food in Korea written by Jaehyeon Jeong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships among food, culture, and society, Communicating Food in Korea features contributors from a variety of disciplines, including economics, political science, communication studies, nutrition research, tourism research, and more. Each chapter presents a unique interpretation of food’s economic, political, and sociocultural relevance. Situated in Korea’s shifting historical contexts, contributors explore themes, such as colonialism, food symbolism, gastronationalism, multiculturalism, food tourism, food security, and food sovereignty to research the ways food intersects with social issues in Korean society.
Download or read book Health Disparities in Contemporary Korean Society written by Sou Hyun Jang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume unveils diverse issues and factors related to health disparities in contemporary Korean Society. It illustrates how economic and social changes unequally impact different subpopulations, including employees, the elderly, children, and immigrants and describes why health policy and intervention is needed now.
Download or read book Digital Media Online Activism and Social Movements in Korea written by Hojeong Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea deepens the current understanding of online activism and its impacts on society by highlighting how various forms of social movements have been mobilized in Korea. Through exploring movements in Korea such as political participation based on SNS, the 2008 U.S. beef protests, and the 2016-2017 candlelight vigils, the contributors study the intersection of digital media platforms, current trends, and social, cultural, and political conditions within Korean society. Using a wide range of events and movements, this book analyzes how people have utilized the development of digital media to facilitate social movements and effect social change.
Download or read book From Sweatshop to Fashion Shop written by Jihye Kim and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their arrival in the 1960s, Korean immigrants in Argentina have been massively involved in the garment industry. Nevertheless, despite their decades-long concentration in the same sector, over time they have reshaped their motivations and business styles throughout the twists and turns of the host country’s junctures. Applying rigorous immigrant entrepreneurship theories, yet wary of orthodoxies, Kim examines the intriguing paths which Korean entrepreneurs have taken to develop their businesses in the Argentine garment industry amidst complex, frantically volatile social and economic circumstances, and argues for the application of a new approach that combines existing theories with historically contextual perspectives. This unique case study on Korean immigrant entrepreneurship in Latin America represents a significant milestone in the fields of migration and Korean studies and a substantial contribution to bridging the gap between the North, where such inquiries abound, and the South, where the history, settlement, and current status of Korean immigrants have been notoriously under-examined.
Download or read book International Students from Asia in Canadian Universities written by Ann Kim and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the recruitment and retention of Asian international students in Canadian universities intersects with other institutional priorities. Responding to the growing need for new insights and perspectives on the institutional mechanisms adopted by Canadian universities to support Asian international students in their academic and social integration to university life, it crucially examines the challenges at the intersection of two institutional priorities: internationalization and anti-racism. This is especially important for the Asian international student group, who are known to experience invisible forms of discrimination and differential treatment in Canadian post-secondary education institutions. The authors present new conceptualisations and theoretical perspectives on topics including international students’ experiences and understandings of race and racism, comparisons with domestic students and/or non-Asian students, institutional discourse and narratives on Asian international students, comparison with other university priorities, cross-national comparisons, best practices, and recent developments linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. Foregrounding the institutional strategies of Canadian universities, as opposed to student experience exclusively, this direct examination of institutional responses and initiatives draws out similarities and differences across the country, compares them within the broader array of university priorities, and ultimately offers the opportunity for Canadian universities to learn from each other in improving the integration of Asian international students and others to their student body. It will appeal to teacher-scholars, researchers and educators with interested in higher education, international education and race and ethnic studies.
Download or read book Pachappa Camp written by Edward T. Chang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through new research and materials, Edward T. Chang proves in Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States that Dosan Ahn Chang Ho established the first Koreatown in Riverside, California in early 1905. Chang reveals the story of Pachappa Camp and its roots in the diasporic Korean community's independence movement efforts for their homeland during the early 1900s and in the lives of the residents. Long overlooked by historians, Pachappa Camp studies the creation of Pachappa Camp and its place in Korean and Korean American history, placing Korean Americans in Riverside at the forefront of the Korean American community’s history.
Download or read book Early Study Abroad and Identities written by Mun Woo Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how transnational English learning experiences can influence students’ identities. More specifically, it delineates how Korean early study abroad undergraduates perceive English and how they have formed their ethnic identities based on their early study abroad experiences. They tend to see themselves “in between” two cultures/languages and this in-between-ness is the most distinctive common characteristic of their identities. However, their in-between-ness means more than being connected to both Korea and America or hybridizing Korean and American discourses. As transnational elites who cross the borders freely, they are in a position to be cosmopolitans who can take advantage of the in-between-ness, becoming keen critics of dominant cultures in both contexts, and potentially social activists who can stand up for social justice. In short, the early study abroad experience should be understood not just in terms of language learning, but as a process by means of which learners develop social awareness in multiple language-related contexts that can lead them beyond their own circumscribed world of elitism to a position of responsibility for sharing what they have experienced and learned for the benefit of society.
Download or read book Culture Clash Korean International Students in an American High School written by Hye-young Park and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key words: Foucault's neoliberal governmentality and genealogy of homo-economicus, the man of enterprise (entrepreneur), Human capital, Early study abroad (Chogi Yuhak) as a transnational strategy, Korean education and English fever, English-only, Educational migration and globalization, Culture clash, Asian model minority and yellow peril, Christianity and capitalism, Linguistic imperialism and hegemony of America Fragile Civility: an Evangelical American School Meets Korean International Students in the 21st Century Based on five years of ethnographic research, the book examined the cross-national clash that emerged when a Midwestern Christian high school, Joshua High School, predominantly white, enrolled escalating numbers of Early Study Abroad Korean teenagers. The tensions among U.S. teachers and students and Korean internationals at the school resulted in the promulgation of English-Only and guardianship policies (i.e., students had to be residing with a parent or an official guardian). In examining these policies, she discovered uncomfortable and considerable incompatibilities between the school's staff and leadership, and the educational and social goals and expectations of the Korean students and their parents. She argues, however, that a veneer of civility obscured these diverging perspectives from surfacing explicitly. The tensions were complicated by linguistic, religious, racial/ethnic differences, as well as class, citizenship, and identity issues. The resulting experiences suggested that neither the Korean families nor the school staff were prepared for the conflict that ensued. The largest and rapidly growing numbers of “international students” in U.S. institution of elementary, secondary, or higher education at all levels pose opportunities, as well as significant challenges, both within the academic settings and in the larger communities. In light of the urgency and growth of these concerns, this book presents considerable possibilities and obstacles relative to understanding how language exists in a cross-national context. It particularly focuses on the importance of language, in particular the emergence of English as today's lingua franca, in terms of integration as opposed to assimilation. Researching the culture clash, this book aims at fostering the possibility of integrating international students through a rigorous analysis of the close proximity between the two groups while maximizing the understanding of the intensity of the conflicts—tensions and frictions. This book is unique in that: (1) It is highly pertinent to today's scene because of the growing numbers of international students that are expected to enroll in U.S schools and schools worldwide. (2) It is about international students, especially K-12, which has received relatively little attention in academic publishing. (3) The author is a former international student and current scholar with a focus on transnational Korean issues in the U.S. (4) The credibility of the research is enhanced by its adoption of a broad, interdisciplinary methodological toolkit to address transnational contact, race/ethnicity, language, culture, class, nationality, and identity as inextricably interconnected phenomena in an era of globalization. (5) It is a longitudinal ethnographic study that crosses national borders. This book is based on five years of interviews with and observations about students, their parents, and educators from both groups both at and outside the school (in the U.S. and in Korea). (6) It contains both micro- and macro-analytic theoretical foundations to support assertions and claims related to the implementation of policies on the part of the school to remedy the culture clash.
Download or read book English Only No Korean Korean Internationals in an American High School written by Hye-young Park and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key words: Foucault's neoliberal governmentality and genealogy of homo-economicus, the man of enterprise (entrepreneur), human capital, Early Study Abroad (ESA) as a transnational strategy, Korean education and English fever, Educational migration and globalization, Asian model minority and yellow peril, Christianity and capitalism, linguistic imperialism and Hegemony of America Grade-obsessed Koreans, Listen! English-Only, No Korean! Fragile Civility: an Evangelical American School Meets Korean International Students in the 21st Century Based on five years of ethnographic research, the book examined the cross-national clash that emerged when a Midwestern Christian high school, Joshua High School, predominantly white, enrolled escalating numbers of Early Study Abroad (Chogi Yuhak) Korean teenagers. The tensions among U.S. teachers and students and Korean internationals at the school resulted in the promulgation of English-Only and guardianship policies (i.e., students had to be residing with a parent or an official guardian). In examining these policies, she discovered uncomfortable and considerable incompatibilities between the school's staff and leadership, and the educational and social goals and expectations of the Korean students and their parents. She argues, however, that a veneer of civility obscured these diverging perspectives from surfacing explicitly. The tensions were complicated by linguistic, religious, racial/ethnic differences, as well as class, citizenship, and identity issues. The resulting experiences suggested that neither the Korean families nor the school staff were prepared for the conflict that ensued. The largest and rapidly growing numbers of “international students” in U.S. institution of elementary, secondary, or higher education at all levels pose opportunities, as well as significant challenges, both within the academic settings and in the larger communities. In light of the urgency and growth of these concerns, this book presents considerable possibilities and obstacles relative to understanding how language exists in a cross-national context. It particularly focuses on the importance of language, in particular the emergence of English as today's lingua franca, in terms of integration as opposed to assimilation. Researching the culture clash, this book aims at fostering the possibility of integrating international students through a rigorous analysis of the close proximity between the two groups while maximizing the understanding of the intensity of the conflicts—tensions and frictions. This book is unique in that: (1) It is highly pertinent to today's scene because of the growing numbers of international students that are expected to enroll in U.S schools and schools worldwide. (2) It is about international students, especially K-12, which has received relatively little attention in academic publishing. (3) The author is a former international student and current scholar with a focus on transnational Korean issues in the U.S. (4) The credibility of the research is enhanced by its adoption of a broad, interdisciplinary methodological toolkit to address transnational contact, race/ethnicity, language, culture, class, nationality, and identity as inextricably interconnected phenomena in an era of globalization. (5) It is a longitudinal ethnographic study that crosses national borders. This book is based on five years of interviews with and observations about students, their parents, and educators from both groups both at and outside the school (in the U.S. and in Korea). (6) It contains both micro- and macro-analytic theoretical foundations to support assertions and claims related to the implementation of policies on the part of the school to remedy the culture clash.
