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The myth of monoethnic and monocultural Korea is tenacious. In the aftermath of Japanese colonialism, it found renewed strength in the Park Chung Hee era and in South Korean cultural nationalism of...
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The myth of monoethnic and monocultural Korea is tenacious. In the aftermath of Japanese colonialism, it found renewed strength in the Park Chung Hee era and in South Korean cultural nationalism of the 1980s. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, government sponsorship of cultural globalization valorized the idea of “multiculturalism” (tamunhwa), but did not dispel widespread discrimination and xenophobia against actual multiethnic and multicultural populations. The contributors to this volume employ the dual concepts of “multicultural” and “multiethnic” to make sense of an intriguing facet of the recent and continuing South Korean social transformation. This is the first English-language book of its kind to address multiculturalism in South Korea.
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Price: $32.00
Pages: 360
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: Transnational Korea
Publication Date: 01 March 2015
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557291103
Format: Paperback
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John Lie (pronounced "Lee") is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies Korean diasporic trajectories and rethinks the categories of modern peoplehood. His recent works include Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity (UC Press, 2008) and an edited volume, Multiethnic Korea? Multiculturalism, Migration, and Peoplehood Diversity in Contemporary South Korea (IEAS, 2015).
Education: A.B. in Social Studies, Harvard University; Ph.D. in Sociology, Harvard University

Preface 
Contributors 

1. Introduction: Multiethnic Korea
    John Lie

Part I: An Emergent Multiethnic Multicultural Society?

2. Late Migration, Discourse, and the Politics of Multiculturalism in South Korea: A Comparative Perspective 
    Timothy C. Lim

3. Korea: Multiethnic or Multicultural? 
    Nora Hui-Jung Kim

4. Tolerance, Tamunhwa , and the Creating of the New Citizens 
    EuyRyung Jun

5. Makeshift Multiculturalism: The Transformation of Elementary School Teacher Training 
    Nancy Abelmann, Gayoung Chung, Sejung Ham, Jiyeon Kang, and Q-Ho Lee

Part II: Migrants and Others

6. The Needs of Others: Revisiting the Nation in North Korean and Filipino Migrant Churches in South Korea
    Hae Yeon Choo

7. North Korean Migrants in South Korea: From Heroes to Burdens and First Unifiers 
    Jin-Heon Jung

8. Beyond Motherlands and Mother Love: Locating Korean Adoptees in Global Korea 
    Eleana Kim

9. Diverging Paths, Converging Ends: Japan’s and Korea’s Low-Skilled Immigration Policies, 1990–2010
    Keiko Yamanaka

Part III: Diversifying Korea

10. Race-ing toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals and African Migrants
    Nadia Y. Kim

11. Almost Korean: Korean Amerasians in an Era of Multiculturalism
    Sue-Je L. Gage

12. Can the Union of Patriarchy and Multiculturalism Work? Family Dynamics in Filipina-Korean Rural Households
    Minjeong Kim

Part IV: Coda

13. Korean Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective
    Jack Jin Gary Lee and John D. Skrentny

Index