Between foreign and family : return migration and identity construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese

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    • Lee, Helene K.

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Between foreign and family : return migration and identity construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese

Helene K. Lee

(Asian American studies today)

Rutgers University Press, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index

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Winner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia/Asian-American Section Between 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.  

目次

Introduction 1 1. The Premigration Condition 14 2. Return Migrants in the South Korean Immigration System and Labor Market 39 3. Of “Kings” and “Lepers”: The Gendered Logics of Koreanness in the Social Lives of Korean Americans 67 4. “Aren’t We All the People of Joseon?”: Claiming Ethnic Inclusion through History and Culture 97 5. The Logics of Cosmopolitan Koreanness and Global Citizenship 114 Conclusion: Finding Family among Foreigners 134 Acknowledgments 143 Appendix A: Research Methods 147 Appendix B: Characteristics of Respondents 149 Notes 155 References 167 Index 175

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