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Migrant Conversions : Transforming Connections between Peru and South Korea / / Erica Vogel



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Autore: Vogel Erica Visualizza persona
Titolo: Migrant Conversions : Transforming Connections between Peru and South Korea / / Erica Vogel Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2020]
©2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 p.)
Disciplina: 305.868/8505195
Soggetto topico: Foreign workers, Peruvian - Korea (South) - Social conditions
Soggetto non controllato: asia
clergy
conversion
cosmopolitan
diaspora
economics
ethnicity
ethnography
finances
foreign workers
globalization
government
immigration
labor
latin america
law
migrant workers
migration
money
nonfiction
peru
politics
poverty
race
religion
religious clergy
social justice
south america
south korea
wealth
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructing “The End” -- 1. Peru, South Korea, Peru . . . -- 2. Monetary Conversion -- 3. Religious Conversion -- 4. Cosmopolitan Conversion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Peruvian migrant workers began arriving in South Korea in large numbers in the mid 1990s, eventually becoming one of the largest groups of non-Asians in the country. Migrant Conversions shows how despite facing unstable income and legal exclusion, migrants come to see Korea as an ideal destination. Some even see it as part of their divine destiny. Faced with looming departures, Peruvians develop cosmopolitan plans to transform themselves from economic migrants into pastors, lovers, and leaders. Set against the backdrop of 2008's global financial crisis, Vogel explores the intersections of three types of conversions- money, religious beliefs and cosmopolitan plans-to argue that conversions are how migrants negotiate the meaning of their lives in a constantly changing transnational context. At the convergence of cosmopolitan projects spearheaded by the state, churches, and other migrants, Peruvians change the value and meaning of their migrations. Yet, in attempting to make themselves at home in the world and give their families more opportunities, they also create potential losses. As Peruvians help carve out social spaces, they create complex and uneven connections between Peru and Korea that challenge a global hierarchy of nations and migrants. Exploring how migrants, churches and nations change through processes of conversion reveals how globalization continues to impact people's lives and ideas about their futures and pasts long after they have stopped moving, or that particular global moment has come to an end.
Titolo autorizzato: Migrant Conversions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-97457-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996347747403316
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