Korean Diaspora across the World: Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality

by Eun-Jeong Han (Contribution by), Irina Balitskaya (Contribution by), Jae Hyung Park (Contribution by), Min Wha Han (Contribution by), JongHwa Lee (Contribution by)

Overview

This edited volume analyzes the Korean diaspora across the world and traces the meaning and the performance of homeland. The contributors explore different types of discourses among Korean diaspora across the world, such as personal/familial narratives, oral/life histories, public discourses, and media discourses. They also examine the notion of “space” to diasporic experiences, arguing meanings of space/place for Korean diaspora are increasingly multifaceted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498599245
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/06/2021
Series:	Korean Communities across the World
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Eun-Jeong Han is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Salisbury University.

Min Wha Han is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at West Texas A&M University.

JongHwa Lee is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Mass Media at Angelo State University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Looking at Koreans’ Global Migration Path through the Lenses of Family History

Eun-Jeong Han

Part I: Homeland in Personal Experiences and Memories: Identity Negotiation and Cultural Adaption among Korean Diaspora

Chapter Two: Korean Diaspora in Sakhalin – “Your Homeland Does Not Need You but We Do”

Irina Balitskaya and Jae Hyung Park

Chapter Three: Negotiating the “Homeland”: An Analysis of Narrative Identities among First-Generation Koreans in Japan

Min Wha Han

Chapter Four: Families Beyond Borders: Discourse of Homeland, Diaspora, and (Up)Rooted-Identity

JongHwa Lee

Chapter Five: Homeland in the Kitchen: The Intersection of Food and Diasporic Identity

Jaehyeon Jeong

Chapter Six: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Discursive Burden of Establishing Individual and Family Identity

Sara Docan-Morgan

Chapter Seven: The 1.5th and 2nd Generations in Chile: Am I a Korean?

Wonjung Min

Part II: Homeland in Public Discourses: Media Use and News Coverage of Korean Diaspora

Chapter Eight: Identity Formation of the Korean Diaspora, Koryo-Saram, in Contemporary Kazakhstan: An Analysis Based upon Articles of Koryo-Ilbo

Jinhye Lee

Chapter Nine: “Trash to the Trash Cans, Koreans to the Korean Peninsula!”: Diehard Racism and the Rise of Hate Speech against Korean Residents in Japan

Soo-Hye Han

Chapter Ten: “I Am Korean American”: Constructing Diasporic Identifications on a Korean American Facebook Group and Pinterest Board

David C. Oh

Chapter Eleven: Online Community for Information, Support, and Transnational Activities: A Case of MissyUSA among Female Korean Im/migrants in the United States

EunKyung Lee

Chapter Twelve: Context Matters: The Effect of Homeland Media Use on the Generation of Social Capital among Korean Communities in the U.S.

Sohyun Choi and Claire Shinhea Lee

Chapter Thirteen: Coreano Vlogs: Diasporic Media and the Politics of Asian Representation in Latin America

Benjamin M. Han

Editorial Reviews

Korean Diaspora across the World provides a powerful collection of essays about migration and survival, of memory and place, and of longing for and coming home. The edited volume is an excellent academic resource for scholars interested in history, media, diaspora studies, communication studies, and Korean studies. This book calls us to reconsider how we construct our identities by exploring diverse diasporic experiences and challenging simplistic definitions of who we are and where we are from.

Asian Communication Research Journal

Throughout history, Koreans have been voluntarily migrating or forced to migrate to other countries. Korean Diaspora Across the World: Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality explores the wide-ranging experiences of Korean migration, adoption, and diaspora in various situations. Unlike other anthologies on this topic, the unique collection of articles in this book comprehensively illustrates how Koreans have struggled, survived, and triumphed in various corners of the globe and how they have constructed and identified imagined communities through social media and other media consumption.

Eung-Jun Min

Korean Diaspora across the World: Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality is an engaging and wide-ranging exploration of diaspora politics with special attention to identity, cultural adaptation, and public discourse. The book's writings on diasporic Koreans from less-studied regions like Kazakhstan to Chile, and from the angle of food, capture the cutting edge of Korean Studies, which increasingly acknowledges our Eastern European and Latin American roots and Korea's efforts at global cultural hegemony.

Nadia Y. Kim