Korean international students and the making of racialized transnational elites

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    • Park, Sung-Choon

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Korean international students and the making of racialized transnational elites

Sung-Choon Park

(Korean communities across the world / series editor Joong-Hwan Oh)

Lexington Books, c2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-208) and index

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By examining privileged and highly skilled Asian migrants, such as international students who acquire legal permanent residency in the United States, this book registers and traces these transnational figures as racialized transnational elites and illuminates the intersectionality and reconfiguration of race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Using in-depth interviews with Korean international students in New York City and Koreans in South Korea as a case study, this book argues racialized transnational elites are embedded in racial and ethnic dynamics in the United States as well as in class and nationalist conflicts with non-migrant co-ethnics in the sending country. Sung-Choon Park further argues strategic responses to the local, social dynamics shape transnational practices such as diaspora-building, transfer of knowledge, conversion of cultural capital, and cross-border communication about race, causing heterogeneous social consequences in both societies.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Global Academic Hierarchy and Transnational Social Reproduction Chapter Two: Imperialist Racial Formation and English Language Chapter Three: A Balancing Act of Ethnic Dis/Identification Intersecting Class and Race Chapter Four: Conflicts over Conversion of Cultural Capital and Transfer of Knowledge Chapter Five: International Students' Cross-Border Transmission and Translation about Race and Racism Chapter Six: New Diasporic Nationalism as the Politics of Racialized Transnational Elites Chapter Seven: Digitally-Mediated Transnational Lives and Tactical Uses of New Media

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