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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.
List of contents
Part I: Koreatowns as Economic Formations
Chapter One: The Emergence of a Transborder Koreatown in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Minjeong Kim
Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Enclaves: Divergent Trajectories among South Korean Educational Migrants in Los Angeles' Koreatown
Carolyn Choi
Chapter Three: Transnational Entrepreneurship in Manhattan's Koreatown
Jinwon Kim
Part II: Politics of Koreatowns
Chapter Four: The Split Enclave: Transnationalism and Co-ethnic Conflict in Beijing's Koreatown
Sharon J. Yoon
Chapter Five: Another Koreatown: Korean Military Brides and Their Forgotten Communities
Yuri W. Doolan
Chapter Six: Being Seen and Not Heard: Impact of Redistricting on Koreatown
Soo Mee Kim
Part III: Koreatowns and Culture
Chapter Seven: The Emergence of Koreatown in Singapore and a Global Community of K-culture Fans
Hyo Kyung Woo
Chapter Eight: The Reterritorialization of Mexico City's Koreatown, "Little Seoul," through the Overseas Popularity of Hallyu
Cassandra Gutierrez
Chapter Nine: Reframing the "Riots": Locating Koreatown in Contemporary Korean American Retellings of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising
Stephen Cho Suh
About the author
Edited by Jinwon Kim; Soo Mee Kim and Stephen Cho Suh - Contributions by Carolyn Areum Choi; Yuri W. Doolan; Cassandra Gutierrez; Jinwon Kim; Minjeong Kim; Soo Mee Kim; Stephen Cho Suh; Hyo Kyung Woo and Sharon J. Yoon
Summary
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.
