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Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea

Across National Boundaries

Edited by Sung-Choon Park and Joong-Hwan Oh - Contributions by Jin Suk Bae; Soo-jung Go; Mi-Kyung Kim; Soon-yang Kim; Jamie Shinhee Lee; Timothy C. Lim; Joong-Hwan Oh; Hyung Wook Park; Kwangwoo Park; Sung-Choon Park; Woo Park; Dong-Hoon Seol; Farrah Sheikh; Julia Jiwon Shin; Don Tajaroensuk and Keunsun You

Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea: Across National Boundaries examines the intersections of race, class, gender and inequalities in global migration in contemporary South Korea. The contributors explore South Korean migration policies and study diverse migrants living and working in South Korea as low-wage undocumented workers, refugees, Korean returnees, migrant women married to Korean men, and white professionals. The chapters in this collection make visible the differentiation and divergence of migration experiences due to race, class, gender, and place of origin, which are all also mediated by local inequalities in South Korea.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 314 • Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-7936-3408-5 • Hardback • September 2020 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
Series: Korean Communities across the World
Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, Social Science / Emigration & Immigration, Social Science / General

Sung-Choon Park teaches sociology at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. He is the author of Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites.

Joong-Hwan Oh is professor of sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York.

Part I: New Migration Regime in South Korea

Chapter 1: Multiculturalism as a Political Project for a New Korean Nation-Building: Explaining the Political Consensus on Multiculturalism Policy

Mi-Kyung Kim

Chapter 2: Explaining South Korea’s Diaspora Engagement Policies

Timothy C. Lim and Dong-Hoon Seol

Chapter 3: Globalization and Language Education: English Village in South Korea

Jamie Shinhee Lee

Part II: Return Migrants from Uneven and Unequal Korean Diaspora

Chapter 4: Hierarchical Citizenship in Perspective: South Korea’s Korean Chinese

Woo Park

Chapter 5: A Research on Social and Self Perspective towards Highly Educated Korean Returnees Focusing on Business Context

Keunsun You

Chapter 6: Acquiring Higher Education Credentials at Home: Korean Student Return Migrants from Latin America

Jin Suk Bae

Part III: Labor Migration from the Global North & South

Chapter 7: Living as Foreign Scientists: Stories of Nineteen Expatriate Professors in South Korea.

Hyung Wook Park

Chapter 8: Creating Hidden Social Capital: A Case of Indonesian Immigrants of Wongok-dong in South Korea

Kwang Woo Park

Chapter 9: The Construction of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Case of Thai Migrant Workers in South Korea

Julia Jiwon Shin and Don Tajaroensuk

Part IV: Family Migration and Refugees

Chapter 10: Freeing the Migrant Women in South Korea from a Shackle of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Causes of Poverty and the Suggestion of Policy Responses

Soon-yang Kim and Soo-jung Go

Chapter 11: Exploring how Mobility Affects Muslim lives: The Case of Yemeni Refugees on Jeju Island

Farrah Sheikh

This volume is a welcome addition to the growing literature on multiculturalism in South Korea. Comprehensive in scope, the chapters reflect the diverse scholarship that was until now only available to a Korean audience. This volume is essential reading for any student of globalization, immigration, and demographic change.


— Paul Chang, Harvard University


Newcomers and Global Migration offers a comprehensive and truly global account of South Korea and its transnational migratory flows. Highlighting the plurality of migrant experiences in South Korea and beyond, the book illustrates how diverse migrant communities from the Global South and North—university students, scientists, factory workers, refugees, and co-ethnic returnees—transform social relations, everyday spaces, and national politics. Newcomers and Global Migration will appeal to a variety of readers interested in transnationalism, migration, diaspora, as well as globalization.


— Hae Yeon Choo, author of Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea


Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea

Across National Boundaries

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Summary
Summary
  • Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea: Across National Boundaries examines the intersections of race, class, gender and inequalities in global migration in contemporary South Korea. The contributors explore South Korean migration policies and study diverse migrants living and working in South Korea as low-wage undocumented workers, refugees, Korean returnees, migrant women married to Korean men, and white professionals. The chapters in this collection make visible the differentiation and divergence of migration experiences due to race, class, gender, and place of origin, which are all also mediated by local inequalities in South Korea.

Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 314 • Trim: 6½ x 9
    978-1-7936-3408-5 • Hardback • September 2020 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
    Series: Korean Communities across the World
    Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, Social Science / Emigration & Immigration, Social Science / General
Author
Author
  • Sung-Choon Park teaches sociology at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. He is the author of Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites.

    Joong-Hwan Oh is professor of sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Part I: New Migration Regime in South Korea

    Chapter 1: Multiculturalism as a Political Project for a New Korean Nation-Building: Explaining the Political Consensus on Multiculturalism Policy

    Mi-Kyung Kim

    Chapter 2: Explaining South Korea’s Diaspora Engagement Policies

    Timothy C. Lim and Dong-Hoon Seol

    Chapter 3: Globalization and Language Education: English Village in South Korea

    Jamie Shinhee Lee

    Part II: Return Migrants from Uneven and Unequal Korean Diaspora

    Chapter 4: Hierarchical Citizenship in Perspective: South Korea’s Korean Chinese

    Woo Park

    Chapter 5: A Research on Social and Self Perspective towards Highly Educated Korean Returnees Focusing on Business Context

    Keunsun You

    Chapter 6: Acquiring Higher Education Credentials at Home: Korean Student Return Migrants from Latin America

    Jin Suk Bae

    Part III: Labor Migration from the Global North & South

    Chapter 7: Living as Foreign Scientists: Stories of Nineteen Expatriate Professors in South Korea.

    Hyung Wook Park

    Chapter 8: Creating Hidden Social Capital: A Case of Indonesian Immigrants of Wongok-dong in South Korea

    Kwang Woo Park

    Chapter 9: The Construction of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Case of Thai Migrant Workers in South Korea

    Julia Jiwon Shin and Don Tajaroensuk

    Part IV: Family Migration and Refugees

    Chapter 10: Freeing the Migrant Women in South Korea from a Shackle of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Causes of Poverty and the Suggestion of Policy Responses

    Soon-yang Kim and Soo-jung Go

    Chapter 11: Exploring how Mobility Affects Muslim lives: The Case of Yemeni Refugees on Jeju Island

    Farrah Sheikh

Reviews
Reviews
  • This volume is a welcome addition to the growing literature on multiculturalism in South Korea. Comprehensive in scope, the chapters reflect the diverse scholarship that was until now only available to a Korean audience. This volume is essential reading for any student of globalization, immigration, and demographic change.


    — Paul Chang, Harvard University


    Newcomers and Global Migration offers a comprehensive and truly global account of South Korea and its transnational migratory flows. Highlighting the plurality of migrant experiences in South Korea and beyond, the book illustrates how diverse migrant communities from the Global South and North—university students, scientists, factory workers, refugees, and co-ethnic returnees—transform social relations, everyday spaces, and national politics. Newcomers and Global Migration will appeal to a variety of readers interested in transnationalism, migration, diaspora, as well as globalization.


    — Hae Yeon Choo, author of Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea


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