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From immigrants to ethnics: The life-worlds of Korean immigrants in Chicago

Kim, Youn-Jin

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Title
From immigrants to ethnics: The life-worlds of Korean immigrants in Chicago
Author(s)
Kim, Youn-Jin
Issue Date
1991
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Barrett, James R.
Department of Study
  • History, Asia, Australia and Oceania
  • History, United States
  • Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Discipline
  • History, Asia, Australia and Oceania
  • History, United States
  • Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • History, Asia, Australia and Oceania
  • History, United States
  • Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
  • This study is an exploration of the way in which Koreans' move to the United States since the 1965 amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act has influenced their life, their new or modified modes of thinking, and changes in their milieu, taking the life-world experiences of Chicago's Koreans as a case study.
  • This dissertation analyzes Korean immigrants' old world experiences, migration decisions, residential and occupational patterns, familial adjustment, and the Korean community, focusing on a broader theme of the process from immigrants to ethnics, in a social theoretical and historiographical framework. In discussing their adjustment to new situations, we can find out how their old world background and new world socioeconomic situations, under the particular historical circumstance, interacted with each other. This interaction between their past and present provides the basis of their new identity--Korean-American.
  • This study is an amalgam of outsiders' and insiders' views. It is not just a one-sided description of how outsiders look at the lives of Korean immigrants but also an account of how immigrants themselves see their own changing lives and how their worldview shapes their experiences as revealed through in-depth interviews, their own writing, and their community publications.
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Copyright 1991 Kim, Youn-Jin

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