{"product_id":"between-foreign-and-family-helene-k-lee-9780813586137","title":"Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction Among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia\/Asian-American Section\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween Foreign and Family\u003c\/i\u003e explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate \"back\" to the ancestral homeland from which their families emigrated. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interview data, Helene K. Lee highlights the \"logics of transnationalism\" that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While Koreanness marks these return migrants as outsiders who never truly feel at home in the United States and China, it simultaneously traps them into a liminal space in which they are neither fully family, nor fully foreign in South Korea. Return migration reveals how ethnic identity construction is not an indisputable and universal fact defined by blood and ancestry, but a contested and uneven process informed by the interplay of ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, gender, and history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helene K. Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813586135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813586137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 8.01w x 0.45d","brand":"Helene K. Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086911123711,"sku":"9780813586137","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_818fd966-96a2-42c8-9833-12ff3d4feb1d.jpg?v=1769097278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/between-foreign-and-family-helene-k-lee-9780813586137","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}