@article{ART002358216},
author={Park Christian Joon},
title={Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism},
journal={Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies},
issn={1225-8539},
year={2018},
volume={25},
number={2},
pages={55-84},
doi={10.18107/japs.2018.25.2.003}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park Christian Joon
TI - Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism
JO - Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
PY - 2018
VL - 25
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Global Affairs
SP - 55
EP - 84
SN - 1225-8539
AB - To make sense of globalizing South Korea and the return migration of Korean Americans as they navigate in the transnational hierarchies of race, ethnicity, and nation, this paper introduces a new word ‘miguk hanin’ as a replacement for ‘jaemi gyopo’ which refers to an imagined group of ethnic Koreans residing in the US. Therefore, Korean Americans who havemigrated to South Korea and residing in South Korea would be called ‘jaehan miguk hanin.’ The focus of this paper is to examine the different types of Korean American return migration and the emergent cultural identities negotiated and redefined by Korean Americans as they are perceived in dichotomized images of global Korean heroes and ‘failed’ immigrants.
Korean Americans are not a homogeneous group, but consists of various people with different ethnic identities or senses of belonging that are constantly shifting. Accordingly, Korean Americans residing in South Korea are constructing emergent cultural identities of their own. Considering the ethnic status and history of Korean American diasporic community which has been oscillating between a Korea-centered to a Korean American focus, jaehan miguk hanin faced with differentiation do not redefine their identity in simple nationalist terms as Americans vis-à-vis the Koreans. Rather, the process of identity negotiation can be understood in two as a strengthening of a transnational identity of ‘Korean Americans’ as a response to the marginalization in South Korea and the formation of a new ethnic identity of global Koreans.
KW - Ethnic Identity;Return Migration;Global Korean;Marginalization;Miguk Hanin
DO - 10.18107/japs.2018.25.2.003
ER -
Park Christian Joon. (2018). Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 25(2), 55-84.
Park Christian Joon. 2018, "Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism", Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol.25, no.2 pp.55-84. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2018.25.2.003
Park Christian Joon "Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 25.2 pp.55-84 (2018) : 55.
Park Christian Joon. Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism. 2018; 25(2), 55-84. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2018.25.2.003
Park Christian Joon. "Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 25, no.2 (2018) : 55-84.doi: 10.18107/japs.2018.25.2.003
Park Christian Joon. Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 25(2), 55-84. doi: 10.18107/japs.2018.25.2.003
Park Christian Joon. Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies. 2018; 25(2) 55-84. doi: 10.18107/japs.2018.25.2.003
Park Christian Joon. Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism. 2018; 25(2), 55-84. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2018.25.2.003
Park Christian Joon. "Emergent Cultural Identities of Jaehan Miguk Hanin: From Marginalization to Global Nationalism" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 25, no.2 (2018) : 55-84.doi: 10.18107/japs.2018.25.2.003
