Kazuko Suzuki

Divided Fates (eBook, ePUB)

The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner, ASA Book Award on Asia/Transnational (2017) This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same ethnic/national collectivity diverge depending upon destinations and how they are received in a certain state and society within particular historical contexts. The author finds that the mode of incorporation (a specific combination of contextual factors), rather than ethnic 'culture' and 'race,' plays a decisive role in determining the fates of these Korean immigrant groups. In other words, what matters most for immigrants' integration is not their particular cultural background or racial similarity to the dominant group, but the way they are received by the host state and other institutions. Thus, this book is not just about Korean immigrants; it is also about how contexts of reception including different conceptualizations of 'race' in relation to nationhood affect the adaptation of immigrants from the same ethnic/national origin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739129562
• Artikelnr.: 45103456

Autorenporträt

Kazuko Suzuki is assistant professor of sociology at Texas A&M University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cross-National Comparison of Immigrant Adaptation
Part I: Koreans in Japan
Chapter 1: Who Are They and Why Did They Come?
Chapter 2: Managing the Multiethnic Empire
Chapter 3: Survival in State-Based Politics
Chapter 4: Perpetual Foreigners
Chapter 5: Socio-Economic Adaptation
Chapter 6: Community Formation of the Invisible Minority
Part II: Koreans in the United States: From A Comparative Perspective
Chapter 7: Beneficiaries of the Cold War
Chapter 8: Survival in a Racial Society
Chapter 9: Formation of the Enclave Community
Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Cross-National Comparison of Immigrant
Adaptation
Appendix A: Statistical Data Used in This Study
Appendix B: The 1993 Zainichi Survey
Appendix C: The 1995-1996 SSC Survey