Korean Immigrants from Latin America

In Korean Immigrants from Latin America, Jin Suk Bae executes the book’s premise--to challenge the boundedness and fixity of much of the scholarship on Korean migrant communities by highlighting the multiple mobilities of Korean immigrants from Latin America residing in New York--with verve and gusto. By investigating the migratory trajectories, experiences, and identities of this otherwise understudied population, Bae deftly illustrates how the practice of migration can be simultaneously historically and economically situated yet spontaneous and unpredictable. This interdisciplinary work provides groundbreaking insights and important critiques to the growing subfield of Korean diaspora studies that will surely inspire new questions and avenues for research. -- Stephen Suh, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Korean Immigrants from Latin America: Fitting into Multiethnic New York is a long-overdue book on a group of Korean immigrants seldom studied or given much attention in the large body of scholarship on Korean immigration to the United States. This is the first scholarly monograph examining systematically the unique adaptation and experience of Korean remigrants to the United States. As a Korean remigrant from Paraguay to America myself, I can fully attest to the key findings of this study such as the role of social networks and language and business skills acquired in Latin America on twice migrants’ successful transition to New York City. I am pleased to see that stories of remigration like my own are finally being told and given full scholarly consideration. -- Dae Young Kim, George Mason University