Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork at Fairfax County, Virginia, and Daechi-dong, Seoul, Korea, Korean Kirogi Families explores the dynamics of emplaced transnational families through analyses of the categories of social capital, sense of place, sense of belonging, and mothering among so-called "Korean kirogi families." A Korean kirogi ......
Gender, Family, Social, and Legal Dynamics of Middle-Class Asian Transna
Korean Wild Geese Families: Gender, Family, Social, and Legal Dynamics of Middle-Class Asian Transnational Families in North America explores the experiences of middle-class Korean transnational families, whose mothers and children migrate abroad for children's education while fathers remain in Korea and economically support their families, ......
Gender, Family, Social, and Legal Dynamics of Middle-Class Asian Transna
Korean Wild Geese Families explores gender, family, social, and legal dynamics of Korean "wild geese" families in North America throughout transnational separation. To analyze these dynamics, Se Hwa Lee analyzes themes of women's empowerment, housework patterns, spousal relationships, intensive mothering, transnational fathering, and ......
Exploring the Economics, Politics, and Identities of Korean Spatial Fo
This volume explores the analogous and heterogeneous nature of Koreatowns throughout the globe, challenging the LA-NYC based ethnic-entrepreneurial discourse that dominates the narratives of the Korean diaspora.
This book provides an in-depth study of the life of the late Pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah. The authors present a twenty-first-century reinterpretation of Nkrumah's Pan-Africanist views in the context of Black unity as well as Black liberation within the African continent and the United States and Caribbean diaspora.
This book provides an in-depth study of the life of the late Pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah. The authors present a twenty-first-century reinterpretation of Nkrumah's Pan-Africanist views in the context of Black unity as well as Black liberation within the African continent and the United States and Caribbean diaspora.
Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest
LA Rising revisits the Los Angeles unrest of 1992 and the interethnic and racial tensions that emerged as well as how structural inequality impacted relations among Koreans, African-Americans, and Latinos.
Contemporary Plays and Performance Pieces by Latinas
A timely collection of Latina performance pieces Surveying the Latina theatre movement in the United States since the 1980s, La Voz Latina brings together contemporary plays and performance pieces by innovative Latina playwrights. This rich collection of varying styles, forms, themes, and genres includes work by Yareli Arizmendi, Josefina Baez, ......
Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
Together but apart in a globalized world
For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that.
