Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites (Korean Communities across the World)

By examining privileged and highly skilled Asian migrants, such as international students who acquire legal permanent residency in the United States, this book registers and traces these transnational figures as racialized transnational elites and illuminates the intersectionality and reconfiguration of race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Using in-depth interviews with Korean international students in New York City and Koreans in South Korea as a case study, this book argues that racialized transnational elites are embedded in racial and ethnic dynamics in the United States as well as in class and nationalist conflicts with non-migrant co-ethnics in the sending country. Sung-Choon Park further argues that strategic responses to the local, social dynamics shape transnational practices such as diaspora-building, transfer of knowledge, conversion of cultural capital, and cross-border communication about race, causing heterogeneous social consequences in both societies. Global academic hierarchy and transnational social reproduction -- Imperialist racial formation and English language -- A balancing act of ethnic dis/identification intersecting class and race -- Conflicts over conversion of cultural capital and transfer of knowledge -- International students' cross-border transmission and translation about race and racism -- New diasporic nationalism as the politics of racialized transnational elites -- Digitally-mediated transnational lives and tactical uses of new media -- Conclusion "An analysis of the ways in which the intersection of class, race, and ethnicity shape the practices of diaspora-building and knowledge transfer and cause heterogeneous consequences in society, this book examines emergent highly skilled Asian migrants as racialized transnational elites through interviews with Korean international students in New York"-- Provided by publisher Park,Sung-Choon.,Korean,International,Students,and,the,Making,of,Racialized,Transnational,Elites,Lexington,Books,2020.,ProQuest,Ebook,Central,http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6321062. Created,from,nyulibrary-ebooks,on,2021-06-25,18:03:43.