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When Ruling Elites Encounter Race and Racism : = Korean International Students' Transnational Lives and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites.

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Title/Author:	When Ruling Elites Encounter Race and Racism :/
Reminder of title:	Korean International Students' Transnational Lives and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites.
Author:	Park, Sung-Choon.
Description:	1 online resource (294 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-11A(E).
Subject:	Sociology. -
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ISBN:	9780355055924

When Ruling Elites Encounter Race and Racism : = Korean International Students' Transnational Lives and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites.
Park, Sung-Choon.

When Ruling Elites Encounter Race and Racism :Korean International Students' Transnational Lives and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites. - 1 online resource (294 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The New School, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

The number of international students has rapidly increased to an unprecedented level, particularly those from emergent Asian economies going to study in the Global North. Unlike the traditional low-wage immigrants from the Global South, Asian international students are largely from wealthy families and become high-skilled return migrants or transnational managerial elites who are armed with academic credentials and knowledge they acquire in the Global North. Based on 121 in-depth interviews of individuals who mostly are Korean international students in New York City and non-migrant Koreans in South Korea, my research examines how international students' social statuses can be different in the U.S. and in the country of origin; and how international students' multiple social statuses can simultaneously shape their transnational lives and practices, such as transfer of knowledge and diaspora-building. My research finds that, while they are racialized and often derogated as "FOB" (Fresh Off the Boat) even by Korean Americans in the U.S., Korean international students are perceived as ruling elites in South Korea due to cultural capital they acquire in the Global North; and that there are class conflicts between Korean international students and non-migrant Koreans in South Korea because their transnational social reproduction redistributes power and wealth. My research further finds that, strategically responding to their multiple statuses, Korean international students actively participate in diaspora-building to simultaneously avoid racialization in the U.S. and counter class resentment in South Korea. Despite their racialization in the U.S., Korean international students often become agents of neoliberal globalization and make status claims as transnational elites for power and privileges in South Korea. In so doing, they obscure their racial reality in the U.S. and instead endorse the presumed superiority of the U.S. My research contributes to examining the racialized transnational elites who are neglected both by global migration studies that focus on under-privileged migrants and by studies on emergent transnational elite groups called "transnational capitalist class" that ignore racial difference within. Through my research I refine the conception of migrants' simultaneous embeddedness in multiple societies to analyze transnational processes beyond the home society/Global North-centric perspective.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355055924Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology.
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