Koreatowns

Jinwon Kim is assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at New York City College of Technology.Soo Mee Kim is lecturer in sociology at California State University, Los Angeles.Stephen Cho Suh is assistant professor of sociology and women’s and ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Based on a rich compilation of research studies conducted by up-and-coming scholars across the field, Koreatowns offers readers the most up-to-date analyses on thepolitical, economic, and cultural re-formation of contemporary Koreatown communities across the world. Based on new and old Koreatowns from gateway and mid-western U.S. cities to Asia, Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, this collection analyzes how economic restructuring, cultural consumption, globalization, and social inequality have triggered the transnational extension and re-formation of Korean communities in ways that both connect as well as stratify. Readers can learn about emerging phenomenon, such as K-wave cultural communities, post-riot political and cultural formations, trans-border U.S.-Mexico Korean enclaves, Korean military bride camptowns, and stratified international student pathways. This book is a must-read for anyone looking for a fresh perspective on Koreatown and the Korean diaspora and is sure to generate new ideas and discussions on global ethnic enclaves today.

• Part I: Koreatowns as Economic FormationsChapter One: The Emergence of a Transborder Koreatown in the U.S.-Mexico Border RegionMinjeong KimChapter Two: A Tale of Two Enclaves: Divergent Trajectories among South Korean Educational Migrants in Los Angeles’ KoreatownCarolyn ChoiChapter Three: Transnational Entrepreneurship in Manhattan’s KoreatownJinwon KimPart II: Politics of KoreatownsChapter Four: The Split Enclave: Transnationalism and Co-ethnic Conflict in Beijing’s KoreatownSharon J. YoonChapter Five: Another Koreatown: Korean Military Brides and Their Forgotten CommunitiesYuri W. DoolanChapter Six: Being Seen and Not Heard: Impact of Redistricting on KoreatownSoo Mee KimPart III: Koreatowns and CultureChapter Seven: The Emergence of Koreatown in Singapore and a Global Community of K-culture FansHyo Kyung WooChapter Eight: The Reterritorialization of Mexico City’s Koreatown, “Little Seoul,” through the Overseas Popularity of HallyuCassandra GutierrezChapter Nine: Reframing the “Riots”: Locating Koreatown in Contemporary Korean American Retellings of the 1992 Los Angeles UprisingStephen Cho Suh