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Between foreign and family : return migration and identity construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese / Helene K. Lee.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 180 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813586168
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JV8757 .B489 2018
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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 migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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 migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state.

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