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The 1.5 Generation Korean Diaspora: A Comparative Understanding of
Identity, Culture, and Transnationalism provides insights into the
contemporary experiences of 1.5 generation Korean immigrants around
the world. By exploring Korean emigrants’ lives in host locations
such as Los Angeles, Boston, Toronto, Auckland, Argentina, and
Deluth, the contributors study the inherent complexities of being a
1.5 generation immigrant and show that 1.5 generation immigrants
are a unique group that deserves further study. The contributors
analyze key issues, such as the 1.5 generation’s identity
negotiations, their occupational trajectories, the role of ethnic
communities and institutions, changing values of love and marriage,
the cultural tension involved in parenthood, their health needs and
services, and ethnic and transnational entrepreneurship.
The 1.5 Generation Korean Diaspora: A Comparative Understanding of
Identity, Culture, and Transnationalism provides insights into the
contemporary experiences of 1.5 generation Korean immigrants around
the world. By exploring Korean emigrants' lives in host locations
such as Los Angeles, Boston, Toronto, Auckland, Argentina, and
Deluth, the contributors study the inherent complexities of being a
1.5 generation immigrant and show that 1.5 generation immigrants
are a unique group that deserves further study. The contributors
analyze key issues, such as the 1.5 generation's identity
negotiations, their occupational trajectories, the role of ethnic
communities and institutions, changing values of love and marriage,
the cultural tension involved in parenthood, their health needs and
services, and ethnic and transnational entrepreneurship.
Medical Transnationalism examines Korean immigrants' distinctive
healthcare behaviors, contributing factors to their medical
tourism, and their experiences and evaluations of medical tourism.
Analyzing survey data of 507 Korean immigrants and in-depth
interviews with 120 Korean immigrants in the New York-New Jersey
area, this book finds that there are three distinctive types of
healthcare behaviors that Korean immigrants employ to deal with
their barriers (e.g., the language barrier and not having health
insurance) to formal US healthcare: dependence on co-ethnic doctors
in the United States, the use of Hanbang (traditional Korean
medicine) in the United States, and medical tours to the homeland.
This book also finds that social transnational ties and health
insurance status are the most influential contributing factors to
Korean immigrants' decision to take medical tours to the home
country. The vast majority of Korean immigrant medical tourists are
satisfied with their medical tourism experiences. In this book, Sou
Hyun Jang makes both empirical and theoretical contributions to the
literature on immigrant healthcare and immigrant transnationalism
by focusing on one immigrant group and connecting medical
transnationalism to other types of transnationalism. The findings
of this book imply that health programs for the most marginalized
group-small business owners and their employees-and better support
for bilingual Korean-English translators at hospitals are needed.
This edited volume unveils diverse issues and factors related to
health disparities in contemporary Korean Society. It illustrates
how economic and social changes unequally impact different
subpopulations, including employees, the elderly, children, and
immigrants and describes why health policy and intervention is
needed now.
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