Between Foreign and Family

Return Migration and Identity Construction Among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese

AvHelene K. Lee

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Winner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia/Asian-American SectionBetween Foreign and Family 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. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate “back” to the ancestral homeland from which their families emigrated. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interview data, Helene K. 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. While Koreanness marks these return migrants as outsiders who never truly feel at home in the United States and China, it simultaneously traps them into a liminal space in which they are neither fully family, nor fully foreign in South Korea. Return migration reveals how ethnic identity construction is not an indisputable and universal fact defined by blood and ancestry, but a contested and uneven process informed by the interplay of ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, gender, and history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-01-31
Mått:140 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asian American Studies Today
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9780813586137

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HELENE K. LEE is an assistant professor of sociology at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

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"In this distinct contribution to the field of transnational studies, Helene K. Lee shows how ethnic identity comes to take on a very different significance depending on one's nationality and class position." - Joshua Roth (author of Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan) "Lee examines the expectations and experiences of two groups, whose members think of themselves as Korean." (Asian Affairs) "The book merits reading to encourage reflection on the current social situation and pondering of the possible transformation of Koreanness in the future." (The Review of Korean Studies) "Lee’s study is a crisply written and cogently argued analysis that makes an original contribution to a range of interrelated subjects that have preoccupied social scientists for decades, including diasporic nationalism, return migration, and (im)migrant incorporation." (China Review International) "Lee’s book aptly suggests that we should try to imagine the concept of homeland beyond the simple binary between family and foreign, us and them, and in and out." (The Journal of Asian Studies)

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Introduction 11. The Premigration Condition 142. Return Migrants in the South KoreanImmigration System and Labor Market 393. Of “Kings” and “Lepers”: The GenderedLogics of Koreanness in the SocialLives of Korean Americans 674. “Aren’t We All the People of Joseon?”:Claiming Ethnic Inclusion throughHistory and Culture 975. The Logics of Cosmopolitan Koreannessand Global Citizenship 114Conclusion: Finding Family among Foreigners 134Acknowledgments 143Appendix A: Research Methods 147Appendix B: Characteristics of Respondents 149Notes 155References 167Index 175

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