Full Description
Korean Immigrants in Latin America: Home Away from Home is a multidisciplinary volume exploring the evolution of transnational Korean communities, tracing migration experiences, processes of cultural adjustment, and the formation of new identities across varied Latin American settings.
Bringing together scholars from diverse countries and academic fields, the book uses historical, ethnographic, and qualitative methods to analyze how Korean immigrants have navigated identity, integration, and community-building in Argentina, Mexico, Paraguay, and Brazil. Topics include migration history, intra-ethnic diversity, economic and cultural development, acculturation, and globalization. Addressing key questions about why Koreans migrated, how they integrated and prospered, and how they've negotiated identity, culture, and relationships with local societies and states, this collection offers richly textured insights into Korean diaspora experiences and transnational community dynamics.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Kyeyoung Park
Chapter 1: A Rhizomatic Diaspora: Transnational Passage and the Sense of Place among Koreans in Latin America by Kyeyoung Park
Chapter 2: From Indentured Laborers to Petty Entrepreneurs: 100 Years of Korean Immigration to Mexico by Alfredo Romero Castilla
Chapter 3: From Coreano to Coreguayo by Jaein Josefina Lee
Chapter 4: The Chosonjok, Chinese Immigrants of Korean Descent in Buenos Aires: The Construction of Identity and Ties with the Korean Community by Mirta Bialogorski
Chapter 5: Crisis and Social Change: The Impact of the 2001 Crisis on the Life of the 1.5 Generation in Argentina by Carolina Mera
Chapter 6: Shaping Koreanness Through Linguistic Practices and Ideologies in a Migratory Context: Notes from Argentina Around the Turn of the Millennium by Corina Courtis
Chapter 7: Language and ethnic identity of the Korean community in Paraguay by Jinny K. Choi
Chapter 8: Korean Brazilians: Negotiating Cultural Identity in the Urban Space of São Paulo by Mirian Lee Hong
Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors
