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Between Foreign and Family Asian American Studies Today This series publishes scholarship on cutting-e dge themes and issues, including broadly based histories of both long-s tanding and more recent immigrant popu- lations; focused investigations of ethnic enclaves and understudied subgroups; and examinations of relationships among various cultural, regional, and socioeconomic communities. Of particular interest are subject areas in need of further critical inqui- ry, including transnationalism, globalization, homeland polity, and other pertinent topics. Series Editor: Huping Ling, Truman State University Chien- Juh Gu, The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans Stephanie Hinnershitz, Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900– 1968 Jennifer Ann Ho, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Helene K. Lee, Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construc- tion among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese Haiming Liu, From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States Jun Okada, Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements Kim Park Nelson, Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Expe- riences and Racial Exceptionalism Zelideth María Rivas and Debbie Lee-D iStefano, eds., Imagining Asia in the Americas David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu, eds., Techno- Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media Jane H. Yamashiro, Constructing Japanese American Identity in Japan: Transnational- ism, Diaspora, and Ancestral Homeland Migration Between Foreign and Family Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese Helene K. Lee Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden, New Jersey and London 978-0-8135-8614-4 978-0-8135-8613-7 978-0-8135-8615-1 Cataloging-in-Publication data is available from the Library of Congress. A British Cataloging- in- Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2018 by Helene K. Lee All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48– 1992. www .rutgersuniversitypress .org Manufactured in the United States of America For my mother, Hae Soon Lee, and my father, Hee Young Lee, and Aurora Han Byeol Lee Contents Introduction 1 1. The Premigration Condition 14 2. Return Migrants in the South Korean Immigration System and Labor Market 39 3. Of “Kings” and “Lepers”: The Gendered Logics of Koreanness in the Social Lives of Korean Americans 67 4. “Aren’t We All the People of Joseon?”: Claiming Ethnic Inclusion through History and Culture 97 5. The Logics of Cosmopolitan Koreanness and Global Citizenship 114 Conclusion: Finding Family among Foreigners 134 Acknowledgments 143 Appendix A: Research Methods 147 Appendix B: Characteristics of Respondents 149 Notes 155 References 167 Index 175 vii Between Foreign and Family
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