The Korean American Dream : : Immigrants and Small Business in New York City /

The Korean American Dream : : Immigrants and Small Business in New York City / / Kyeyoung Park.

Korean immigrants to the United States establish their own small businesses at a rate exceeding that of immigrants from any other nation, with more than one third of all Korean immigrant adults involved in small businesses. Kyeyoung Park examines this phenomenon in Queens, New York, tracing its hist...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Park, Kyeyoung,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1997
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 11 halftones, 1 map, 4 charts, 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • PART I. From Korea to Queens
  • 2. Korean Migration to America: Dependent Development and American Fever
  • 3. The Gravitation to Small Business
  • PART II. Consequences of Gravitation to Small Business
  • 4. Establishment and the Domestic Cycle
  • 5. The Rise of Sisters in Korean America: The Shift to Women-Centered Kin Organization
  • 6. Women's Changing Viewpoints: The Pursuit of Human Dignity
  • 7. Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity: Workplace Encounters
  • 8. Political Processes
  • 9. The Comforts of Christianity for Korean Immigrants: Religion and Reproduction of Small Business Activity
  • PART III. Reassessing the Korean American Dream
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index

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