Divided fates : the state, race, and Korean immigrants' adaptation in Japan and the United States /
This book takes a cross-national and comparative approach, beyond American models, to examine how members of a single ethnic group adapt differently to distinct host societies. In her study of Korean immigrants to Japan and the United States, Suzuki finds that the state's mode of reception and...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- A note on names
- Introduction: Cross-national comparison of immigrant adaptation
- Part I. Koreans in Japan
- Who are they and why did they come?
- Managing the multiethnic empire
- Survival in state-based politics
- Perpetual foreigners
- Socio-economic adaptation
- Community formation of the invisible minority
- Part II. Koreans in the United States : from a comparative perspective
- Beneficiaries of the Cold War
- Survival in a racial society
- 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.