Korean Immigrants in Latin America

Kyeyoung Park is professor and the Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair in Korean American Studies at the University of California Los Angeles.

This book provides a very innovative perspective on diasporas by examining both the historical formation of various Korean immigrant communities in Latin American while also addressing their contemporary ethnic and cultural status. Unlike other edited books about diasporas, it is not merely a compilation of isolated case studies in different countries. Instead, the book convincingly demonstrates that Korean diasporic communities in Latin America are not simply constituted by migratory dispersal from the ethnic homeland, but are also embedded in continuing migration patterns to and from various countries in the Americas and elsewhere.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Kyeyoung ParkChapter 1: A Rhizomatic Diaspora: Transnational Passage and the Sense of Place among Koreans in Latin America by Kyeyoung ParkChapter 2: From Indentured Laborers to Petty Entrepreneurs: 100 Years of Korean Immigration to Mexico by Alfredo Romero CastillaChapter 3: From Coreano to Coreguayo by Jaein Josefina LeeChapter 4: The Chosonjok, Chinese Immigrants of Korean Descent in Buenos Aires: The Construction of Identity and Ties with the Korean Community by Mirta BialogorskiChapter 5: Crisis and Social Change: The Impact of the 2001 Crisis on the Life of the 1.5 Generation in Argentina by Carolina MeraChapter 6: Shaping Koreanness Through Linguistic Practices and Ideologies in a Migratory Context: Notes from Argentina Around the Turn of the Millennium by Corina CourtisChapter 7: Language and ethnic identity of the Korean community in Paraguay by Jinny K. ChoiChapter 8: Korean Brazilians: Negotiating Cultural Identity in the Urban Space of São Paulo by Mirian Lee HongIndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors