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Divided Fates
The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States
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2016
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Winner, ASA Book Award on Asia/Transnational (2017)
This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same ethnic/national collectivity diverge depending upon destinations and how they are received in a certain state and society within particular historical contexts. The author finds that the mode of incorporation (a specific combination of contextual factors), rather than ethnic ‘culture’ and ‘race,’ plays a decisive role in determining the fates of these Korean immigrant groups. In other words, what matters most for immigrants’ integration is not their particular cultural background or racial similarity to the dominant group, but the way they are received by the host state and other institutions. Thus, this book is not just about Korean immigrants; it is also about how contexts of reception including different conceptualizations of ‘race’ in relation to nationhood affect the adaptation of immigrants from the same ethnic/national origin.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2955-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-2956-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
267
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Contents No access
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Preface No access
A Note on Names No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Who Are They and Why Did They Come? No access
Chapter Two: Managing the Multiethnic Empire No access
Chapter Three: Survival in State-Based Politics No access
Chapter Four: Perpetual Foreigners No access
Chapter Five: Socio-Economic Adaptation No access
Chapter Six: Community Formation of the Invisible Minority No access
Chapter Seven: Beneficiaries of the Cold War No access
Chapter Eight: Survival in a Racial Society No access
Chapter Nine: Formation of the Enclave Community No access
