Transnational return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders : a quest for home

Transnational return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders : a quest for home / Jane Yeonjae Lee.

Why do immigrants return home? Is return migration a failure or a success? How do returnees settle back into their original homeland while retaining their connections to their host society? How do returnees contribute to their homeland with their skills gained from overseas? Transnational Return Mig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Jane Yeonjae (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:Korean communities across the world.
Subjects:
Return migration > Korea (South)
Korea (South) > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Reverse culture shock > Korea (South)
Koreans > Ethnic identity.
Koreans > New Zealand.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Koreans
Koreans > Ethnic identity
Return migration
Reverse culture shock
Korea (South)
New Zealand
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Table of Contents:
  • Studying the 'everyday' through a transnational ethnography
  • A transnational approach to return migration
  • Korea and its diaspora
  • Why a return 'home'?
  • Returnees in the workforce and knowledge transfer
  • Constructing identities: challenge, negotiation, and growth
  • Performing identities: re-creating 'home' in Korea.

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