Korean Communities Across the World Migration and Racial Hierarchies in South Korea, (Hardcover)

<p><b><i>Migration and Racial Hierarchies in South Korea</i> examines how migrants from South and Southeast Asia are racialized in South Korea, a society often imagined as ethnically and racially homogeneous.</b><br>Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in factories, a multicultural family center, and neighborhoods, Seonok Lee demonstrates how Koreans understand 'race' and racialization through state policies, labor regimes, gendered family structures, cultural discourse, and everyday interactions. </p><p>The book argues that racialization in South Korea cannot be understood simply through the Euro-American model of race. Instead, it is shaped by Korea's changing position in global capitalism, its own postcolonial history, developmental nationalism, and its recent transition from a migrant-sending to a migrant-receiving country. Migrant workers and marriage migrants are incorporated into Korean society as economically and reproductively necessary, yet they are also marked as others who are outside full belonging. </p><p>By analyzing labor and marriage migration, this book offers new insights into race in a rapidly globalizing East Asian society. </p><p><i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The 2024 Korean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2024-P-018). </i></p>

• Korean Communities Across the World Migration and Racial Hierarchies in South Korea, (Hardcover)
• Author: Seonok Lee
• ISBN: 9781666956986
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-01-07
• Page Count: 160