Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age - The Korean Community in the Nation's Capital (Hardcover)

Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation's Capital examines the durable ties immigrants maintain with the home country and focuses in particular on their transnational cultural activities. In light of changing technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICTs), which enable a faster, easier, and greater social and cultural engagement with the home country, this book argues that middle-class immigrants, such as Korean immigrants in the Washington-Baltimore region, sustain more regular connections with the homeland through cultural, rather than economic or political, transnational activities. Though not as conspicuous and contentious as other forms of transnational participation, cultural transnational activities may prove to be more lasting and also serve as a backbone for maintaining longer-lasting connections and identities with the home country.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Korean Communities across the World
Release date:	December 2017
Authors:	Daeyoung Kim
Contributors:	Young A Jung • Gyu Tag Lee
Dimensions:	237 x 159 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-4175-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	1-4985-4175-5
Barcode:	9781498541756

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