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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Korean diaspora"”.
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DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE KOREAN DIASPORA: A JOURNEY OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
… construction process. With the example of the Korean diaspora in the United States as a case study, this dissertation focuses on the impact of digital media, first, in regard to the ways in which diasporic members communicate with others and respond to the national and social issues of the …
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Exploration of Communicative Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Engagement of the Korean Diaspora
… was to examine qualitatively how members of the Korean diaspora in the Washington, DC, area make meaning of ethnic community, social capital, and civic and political engagement. More specifically, the study examined how communicative social capital influences civic and political engagement as …
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Korean diaspora in the age of globalization: early study abroad (ESA) college students in the Midwest
… examines the unique experiences of international Korean college students in the Midwest who have gone through the early study abroad (ESA) period in the US during their formative secondary school education and the influence of the experiences into their college lives in the mega campus. Two …
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Fragments and Borders: (re)constructing Korean womanhood through patchwork
… the representation, materials, and histories of Korean women told through Korean patchwork, theorising patchwork as a radical form to reimagine (material) histories of Korean women and women of the Korean diaspora. As an amalgam of different pieces that unifies once separated fragments, patchwork …
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Embodying The Hyphen: An Ethnography On Korean Adoptees
An estimated 150, 000 Korean children have grown up in culturally and racially different homes in the United States and other countries since the increase of transnational adoption in 1953. Due to the large number of Korean adoptees living in the U.S. the potential for ethnographic research is …
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Performing modern Korea in the U.S.: Korean immigrants' theatrical activities in California and Hawai'i during the first half of the twentieth century
… investigates theatrical activities by Korean immigrants in the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century. As a result of the fact that Koreans regarded their national territory as tainted by the Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945), they developed their national identity based …
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Cruelty Counts: Anti-Asian Violence and its Queer Afterlives
… American fraternity, the AIDS epidemic, and the Korean diaspora in Canada. As a dissertation that grapples with the structures and conditions that at times produce life-shattering violence, this work ponders on what remains and how marginalized peoples endure. It follows the ethical and political …
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"""We are here because you were there"": Kinship and loss in 20th- and 21st-century Korean American Narratives"
… Kinship and Loss in 20th- and 21st-Century Korean American Narratives analyzes the significance of trauma and attachment in representations of family within contemporary Korean American literature and films. Situating these texts in relation to Asian American histories of warfare, migration, …
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Fissured Languages of Empire: Gender, Ethnicity, and Literature in Japan and Korea, 1930s-1950s
… investigates how Japanese-language literature by Korean writers both emerged out of and stood in opposition to discourses of national language, literature, and identity. The project is twofold in nature. First, I examine the rise of Japanese-language literature by Korean colonial subjects in the …