Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital

Dae Young Kim

doi:10.5771/9781498541763

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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.

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Edition: 1/2017
Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-4175-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-4176-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 212
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1. PLACE OF BIRTH AND GENERATION No access
2. SEX No access
3. MARITAL STATUS No access
4. EDUCATION No access
5. LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION No access
6. SELF-EMPLOYMENT No access
7. Number and Types of Korean-Owned Businesses No access
8. Koreatowns in Annandale, Virginia, and Centreville, Virginia No access
9. OCCUPATION No access
10. INCOME No access
11. HEALTH COVERAGE No access
12. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY No access
13. CITIZENSHIP AND NATURALIZATION No access
14. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION AND PARTICIPATION No access
15. CONCLUSION No access
16. NOTES No access
1. ICT AND CONNECTED MIGRANTS No access
2. SCOPE AND FORMS OF ICT USED No access
3. LIMITATIONS OF ICT No access
4. EVOLUTION OF ICT: FROM LETTERS TO TELEPHONES TO MOBILE/SMART PHONES No access
5. MOBILE PHONES No access
6. Limitations of Mobile Phones No access
7. SMARTPHONES No access
8. Forms and Use of Smartphones No access
9. MOBILE INSTANT MESSAGING APPS VERSUS SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE TEXT MESSAGING No access
10. FROM PC-BASED CYWORLD TO SMARTPHONE-BASED KAKAO TALK No access
11. TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA/TELEVISION No access
12. Forms and Use of Transnational Media/Television No access
13. CONCLUSION No access
14. NOTES No access
1. EVOLUTION OF ICT USE AMONG KOREAN MIGRANTS No access
2. INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE CALLS AND TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNICATION No access
3. KOREAN MIGRANTS AND KAKAO TALK No access
4. REMITTANCES No access
5. ASSETS AND INVESTMENTS No access
6. VISITING THE HOMELAND No access
7. SUMMER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN KOREA No access
8. THE KOREAN STATE AND POLITICAL TRANSNATIONALISM No access
9. VIEWS ON GRANTING THE FRANCHISE TO OVERSEAS KOREANS No access
10. VIEWS ON DUAL CITIZENSHIP No access
11. CONCLUSION No access
12. NOTES No access
1. KOREAN TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA BEFORE 1990S No access
2. THE KOREAN WAVE, THE No access
3. Korean Feature Films No access
4. Korean Dramas No access
5. K-Pop No access
6. CONSUMPTION OF TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA/TELEVISION No access
7. Reasons for Consuming Transnational Media/Television No access
8. Korean Washingtonians’ Consumption of Transnational Media/ Television No access
9. THE No access
10. AND ITS IMPACT ON FIRSTAND SECOND-GENERATION KOREAN AMERICANS No access
11. KOREANIZED VERSUS AMERICANIZED WAYS OF LIFE No access
12. CONCLUSION No access
13. NOTES No access
1. TRANSNATIONALISM AND SENSE OF HOME AND BELONGING No access
2. WHERE IS HOME? KOREA, THE UNITED STATES, OR BOTH? No access
3. United States as Real Home No access
4. Homeland as Real Home No access
5. SENSE OF HOME AND PERCEPTIONS OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL OPPORTUNITY AND POLITICAL FREEDOMS No access
6. PLANS TO RETURN TO THE HOME COUNTRY No access
7. No Desire and Plans to Return to the Homeland No access
8. CONCLUSION No access
9. NOTES No access
1. SELF-SEGREGATION OR RACIALIZATION? No access
2. SELECTIVE ASSIMILATION: BILINGUALISM AND BICULTURALISM No access
3. COHORT AND GENERATIONAL CHANGES ON ASSIMILATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM No access
4. Cohort Changes and Transnationalism No access
5. Generational Changes on Assimilation and Transnationalism No access
6. SYNCHRONIZATION: PERSONAL BLOGS AND DISCUSSION THREADS No access
7. CONCLUSION No access
8. NOTES No access
Conclusion No access Pages 175 - 180
References No access Pages 181 - 198
Index No access Pages 199 - 210
About the Author No access Pages 211 - 212