Between foreign and family : return migration and identity construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese

Between foreign and family : return migration and identity construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese /

This book explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. Lee highlights the ""logics of transnationalism"" that shape the relationships between these return migra...

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Main Author: Lee, Helene K., 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:Asian American studies today.
Subjects:
Return migration > Korea (South)
Koreans > Ethnic identity.
Korean Americans > Ethnic identity.
Koreans > China > Ethnic identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Korean Americans > Ethnic identity
Koreans > Ethnic identity
Return migration
Korea (South) > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Corée du Sud > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
China
Korea (South)
Chinese.
Korean American.
Korean Chinese.
Korean.
Seoul.
South Korea.
ancestry.
citizen.
citizenship.
diaspora.
ethnicity.
foreign.
identity.
migrate.
migration.
national identity.
nationalism.
nationality.
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Table of Contents:
  • Premigration condition
  • Return migrants in the South Korean immigration system and labor market
  • Of "Kings" and "Lepers" : the gendered logics of Koreanness in the social lives of Korean Americans
  • "Aren't we all the people of Joseon?" : claiming ethnic inclusion through history and culture
  • The logics of cosmopolitan Koreanness and global citizenship
  • Conclusion : finding family among foreigners.

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