Transnational Return Migration of 1.5 Generation Korean New Zealanders

A Quest for Home

AvJane Yeonjae Lee

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Korean Communities across the World

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Beskrivning

Why do immigrants return home? Is return migration a failure or a success? How do returnees settle back into their original homeland while retaining their connections to their host society? How do returnees contribute to their homeland with their skills gained from overseas? Transnational Return Migration of 1.5 Generation Korean New Zealanders: A Quest for Home seeks to answer these complex questions surrounding return migration through a case study of the 1.5 generation Korean New Zealander returnees. Jane Lee questions and unpacks the very meaning of “home” and “return” through the personal and intimate stories that are shared by the Korean New Zealander returnees. This book tells a compelling story of the strong desire contemporary transnational migrants feel to belong to one particular identity group. In addition, the author highlights the realities and disconnections of transnationalism as the returnees’ transnational activities and experiences change over time and space.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-04
Mått:161 x 231 x 19 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Korean Communities across the World
Antal sidor:204
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498575812

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jane Yeonjae Lee is visiting research scholar at Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.

Recensioner i media

Sandwiched between a myriad of scholarly studies on both the first and the second migrant generations, this book breaks new ground in several respects. It is an engaging enquiry into the lives, identities, and sense of home of a rarely studied yet important migrant cohort—the 1.5 generation—who left their home country when they were children and who now return. Second, it is an ambitious yet nicely nuanced transnational ethnography. It is also, to a certain extent, an ‘auto-ethnography,’ but never in a cloying way. Finally, it is written in an appealing, jargon-free narrative style which enhances its impact and scholarly significance.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: BeginningsIntroduction: Entering the Field1. Studying the ‘Everyday’ through a Transnational Ethnography2. A Transnational Approach to Return MigrationPart II: Return, Home, and Development3. Korea and its Diaspora4. Why a Return ‘Home’?5. Returnees in the Workforce and Knowledge TransferPart III: Return, Home, and Growth6. Constructing Identities: Challenge, Negotiation, and Growth7. Performing Identities: Re-creating ‘Home’ in KoreaConclusion: Ongoing Quest for ‘Home’