Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites

229 Pages·2020·1.71 MB·English

by  Sung-Choon Park

Korean International
Students and the
Making of Racialized
Transnational Elites
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Korean Communities across the World
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Titles in this Series
Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites, by
Sung-Choon Park
Transnational Mobility and Identity in and out of Korea, edited by Yonson Ahn
Korean Diaspora across the World: Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media
and Reality, edited by Eun-Jeong Han, Min Wha Han, and JongHwa Lee
Mediatized Transient Migrants: Korean Visa-Status Migrants’ Transnational Everyday
Lives and Media Use, by Claire Shinhea Lee
.d LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest, by Kyeyoung
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r sth Medical Transnationalism: Korean Immigrants’ Medical Tourism to Home Country, by
g Sou Hyun Jang
ir llA Transnational Return Migration of 1.5 Generation Korean New Zealanders: A Quest for
.sko Home, by Jane Yeonjae Lee
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Korean International
Students and the
Making of Racialized
Transnational Elites
Sung-Choon Park
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Chapter 4 of this book is revised and adapted from an article previously published in:
Sung-Choon Park, “Conficts Over Knowledge Transfer across the Border: Korean
International Students and the Conversion of Cultural Capital,” Global Networks 19, 1
(2019): 101–118. Copyright by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Reprinted by permission.
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For my parents, Soon-Young Lee and
Kyun-Hyung Park, and my partner, Haeyoung Yoon.
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Park, Sung-Choon. Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites, Lexington Books, 2020.
Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 Global Academic Hierarchy and Transnational Social
Reproduction 21
2 Imperialist Racial Formation and English Language 43
3 A Balancing Act of Ethnic Dis/Identification Intersecting
Class and Race 71
4 Conflicts over Conversion of Cultural Capital and
Transfer of Knowledge 89
5 International Students’ Cross-Border Transmission and
Translation about Race and Racism 113
.de 6 New Diasporic Nationalism as the Politics of Racialized
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r sthg 7 Digitally Mediated Transnational Lives and Tactical
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List of Figures
Figure 2.1 Seoul—An Advertisement on a Bus in Downtown
Seoul in 2013 53
Figure 6.1 New York—Korean Student Drumming Groups from
Various Colleges of the State University of New York
Performing in Manhattan in the 2014 Korean Day Parade 148
Figure 6.2 New Jersey—A Press Conference in 2012 about an
Installment on Japanese Colonial Legacy and a Banner
that States: “Rising Sun Flag = Hakenkreuz” 149
Figure 6.3 California—Protesting Google to Change the Name of
the Sea between Korea and Japan from “Sea of Japan”
to “East Sea” in the Google Map in 2012 149
Figure 6.4 Paris—A 2016 “Candlelight Protest” Demanding a
Resignation of Then South Korean President Park 150
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