Between Foreign and Family - Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Asian American Studies Today
Release date:	2018
Authors:	Helene K Lee
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	174
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-8614-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Customs
LSN:	0-8135-8614-3
Barcode:	9780813586144

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