Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea
Across National Boundaries
Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea
Across National Boundaries
Description
This book 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: NEW MIGRATION REGIME IN SOUTH KOREA
1 Multiculturalism as a Political Project for a New Korean Nation-Building: Explaining the Political Consensus on Multiculturalism Policy (2003–2012) by Mi-Kyung Kim
2 Explaining South Korea's Diaspora Engagement Policies by Timothy C. Lim and Dong-Hoon Seol
3 Globalization and Language Education: English Village in South Korea by Jamie Shinhee Lee
PART II: RETURN MIGRANTS FROM UNEVEN AND UNEQUAL KOREAN DIASPORA
4 Hierarchical Citizenship in Perspective: South Korea's Korean Chinese by Woo Park
5 A Research on Social Perspective toward Highly Educated Korean Returnees in Current Business Context by Keunsun You
6 Acquiring Higher Education Credentials at Home: Korean Student Return Migrants from Latin America by Jin Suk Bae
PART III: LABOR MIGRATION FROM THE GLOBAL NORTH AND GLOBAL SOUTH
7 Living as Foreign Scientists: Stories of Nineteen Expatriate Professors in South Korea by Hyung Wook Park
8 Creating Hidden Social Capital: A Case of the Indonesian Immigrants of Wongok-dong in South Korea by Kwang Woo Park
9 The Construction of Migrant “Illegality”: The Case of Thai Migrant Workers in South Korea by Julia Jiwon Shin and Don Tajaroensuk
PART IV: FAMILY MIGRATION AND REFUGEES
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 by Soon-yang Kim and Soo-jung Go
11 Exploring How Mobility Affects Muslim Lives: The Case of Yemeni Refugees on Jeju Island by Farrah Sheikh
Index
About the Contributors
Product details
| Published | 29 Sep 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 314 |
| ISBN | 9781793634092 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 3 b/w photos; 22 tables; 7 graphs; |
| Series | Korean Communities across the World |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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