TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Helene K.
TI  - Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese 
T2  - Asian American Studies Today
SN  - 9780813586144
AV  - JV8757 
U1  - 304.8/5195 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Korean Americans
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Korean diaspora
KW  - Koreans
KW  - China
KW  - Return migration
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Korean American
KW  - Korean Chinese
KW  - Korean
KW  - Seoul
KW  - South Korea
KW  - ancestry
KW  - citizen
KW  - citizenship
KW  - diaspora
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - foreign
KW  - identity
KW  - migrate
KW  - migration
KW  - national identity
KW  - nationalism
KW  - nationality
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Premigration Condition --; 2. Return Migrants in the South Korean Immigration System and Labor Market --; 3. Of "Kings" and "Lepers": The Gendered Logics of Koreanness in the Social Lives of Korean Americans --; 4. "Aren't We All the People of Joseon?": Claiming Ethnic Inclusion through History and Culture --; 5. The Logics of Cosmopolitan Koreanness and Global Citizenship --; Conclusion: Finding Family among Foreigners --; Acknowledgments --; Appendix A: Research Methods --; Appendix B: Characteristics of Respondents --; Notes --; References --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813586168?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813586168
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