Second-Generation Korean Americans: The Struggle for Full Inclusion

Second-Generation Korean Americans: The Struggle for Full Inclusion
Dae Young Kim
August 2013

ISBN-13:  978-1-59332-599-2 / Hardcover
Dimensions:  5.5 x 8.5 / viii, 224 pages

Price   $70.00

Description

Kim argues that educational and occupational success for groups in the racial middle such as Korean and Asian Americans does not necessarily translate into further integration in other sectors of American society. Educational and professional accomplishments, while accelerating integration and acceptance, can be accompanied by exclusion in other sectors of society. Thus, Korean and Asian Americans may experience rapid intergenerational upward mobility and integration, but still be subject racialization and exclusion. This challenges the assimilation paradigm that immigrants and their children will assimilate and continue to achieve full integration and acceptance in the mainstream society.

About the Author

Dae Young Kim is an assistant professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He received his PhD from the City University of New York- Graduate Center. He has been teaching and conducting research in the areas of international migration and ethnic studies, particularly focusing on the integration of children of immigrants. He is currently conducting a study of the Korean community in the greater Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.