Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction Among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese

by Helene K. Lee

Book Overview

Winner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia/Asian-American Section

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813586135
• ISBN13: 9780813586137
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher