Korean immigrant women and the renegotiation of identity : class, gender, and the politics of identity / / Keumjae Park

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818657403321
• Autore: Park Keumjae
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: El Paso [Tex.], : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Collana: The new Americans : recent immigration and American society
• Disciplina: 305.48/8957073
• Soggetti: Women immigrants - United States; Koreans - United States; Koreans - Ethnic identity; Korean American women
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-214) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Women, Migration, and the Question of Identity -- Migration, Gender, and Theories of Identity: A Structural Framework for Studying Immigrant Women -- Research Design -- Immigration and Disrupted Identities -- Finding Continuity and Mobilizing New Identities -- Gendered Identities: Negotiating Work, Family, and Motherhood1 -- Shifting Reference Groups and Transnational Identity Negotiation1 -- Renegotiating Identities after Migration: Class, Gender, and the Politics of Identity -- INDEX.