Multiethnic Korea? : multiculturalism, migration, and peoplehood diversity in contemporary South Korea / edited by John Lie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lie, John, editor.

Window to Korea Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Transnational Korea ; 1.

Transnational Korea ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--Korea (South).

Cultural pluralism.

Emigration and immigration.

Race relations.

Ethnic relations.

Korea (South).

Multiculturalism--Korea (South).

Multiculturalism.

Korea (South)--Ethnic relations.

Korea (South)--Race relations.

Immigrants--Korea (South).

Immigrants.

Korea (South)--Emigration and immigration.

Korea (South)--Social conditions--1988-.

Social conditions.

Penn Provenance:

Taehan Min'guk Kukhoe Tosŏgwan (donor)

Physical Description:

xiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Institute of East Asian Studies, [2014]

Summary:

"A collection of essays on ethnic and cultural diversity in the Korean peninsula, focusing on South Korea, including monoethnic, nationalist ideology and multiculturalism as ideology and practice, the history of migration and diaspora, transnational adoption, and interracial and interethnic relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Multiethnic Korea / John Lie

Part I. An emergent multiethnic/multicultural society?

The politics of immigration and multiculturalism in South Korea / Timothy C. Lim

Korea : multi-ethnic or multi-cultural? / Nora Hui-Jung Kim

Tolerance, Damunhwa, and the creating of the new citizen subjects / EuyRyung Jun

Makeshift multiculturalism : the transformation of elementary school teacher training / Nancy Abelmann, Ga-young Chung, Sejung Ham, Jiyeon Kang, and Kyou-ho Lee

Part II. Migrants and others

The needs of others : revisiting the nation in North Korean and Filipino migrant churches in South Korea / Hae Yeon Choo

North Korean migrants in South Korea : heroes to burdens and first unifiers in envisioning a reunified Korea / Jin-heon Jung

Beyond motherlands and mother love : locating Korean adoptees in global Korea / Eleana Kim

Divergent paths, converging ends / Keiko Yamanaka

Part III. Diversifying Korea

Race-ing towards the real South Korea : the cases of Black-Korean nationals and African migrants / Nadia Y. Kim

Almost Korean : South Korean Amerasians in the South Korean era of multiculturalism / Sue-Je L. Gage

Can the union of patriarchy and multiculturalism work? : family dynamics in Filipina-Korean rural households / Minjeong Kim

Coda: Korean multiculturalism in comparative perspective / Jack Jin Gary Lee and John D. Skrentny.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea.

ISBN:

9781557291103

1557291101

OCLC:

871536689