{"product_id":"between-foreign-and-family-return-migration-and-identity-construction-among-korean-americans-and-korean-chinese-hardback-9780813586144","title":"Between Foreign and Family; Return Migration and Identity Construction Among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese (Hardback) 9780813586144","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBetween Foreign and Family\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReturn Migration and Identity Construction Among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHelene K. Lee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813586144\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 January 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 2 tables\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.367 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"In this distinct contribution to the field of transnational studies, Helene K. Lee shows how ethnic identity comes to take on a very different significance depending on one's nationality and class position.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Joshua Roth (author of Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Lee examines the expectations and experiences of two groups, whose members think of themselves as Korean.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Asian Affairs) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The book merits reading to encourage reflection on the current social situation and pondering of the possible transformation of Koreanness in the future.\" \u003c\/div\u003e (The Review of Korean Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Lee’s study is a crisply written and cogently argued analysis that makes an original contribution to a range of interrelated subjects that have preoccupied social scientists for decades, including diasporic nationalism, return migration, and (im)migrant incorporation.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (China Review International) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Lee’s book aptly suggests that we should try to imagine the concept of homeland beyond the simple binary between family and foreign, us and them, and in and out.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Journal of Asian Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia\/Asian-American Section\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween Foreign and Family\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Premigration Condition 14\u003cbr\u003e 2. Return Migrants in the South Korean\u003cbr\u003e Immigration System and Labor Market 39\u003cbr\u003e 3. Of “\u003cbr\u003eKings”\u003cbr\u003e and “\u003cbr\u003eLepers”\u003cbr\u003e: The Gendered\u003cbr\u003e Logics of Koreanness in the Social\u003cbr\u003e Lives of Korean Americans 67\u003cbr\u003e 4. “\u003cbr\u003eAren’\u003cbr\u003et We All the People of Joseon?”\u003cbr\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e Claiming Ethnic Inclusion through\u003cbr\u003e History and Culture 97\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Logics of Cosmopolitan Koreanness\u003cbr\u003e and Global Citizenship 114\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Finding Family among Foreigners 134\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 143\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Research Methods 147\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Characteristics of Respondents 149\u003cbr\u003e Notes 155\u003cbr\u003e References 167\u003cbr\u003e Index 175 \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563704283416,"sku":"9780813586144","price":91.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/between-foreign-and-family-return-migration-and-identity-construction-among-korean-americans-and-korean-chinese-hardback-9780813586144","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}