Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age

The Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital

Dae Young Kim

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498541763
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Asian American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation's Capital examines the durable ties immigrants maintain with the home country and focuses in particular on their transnational cultural activities.
In light of changing technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICTs), which enable a faster, easier, and greater social and cultural engagement with the home country, this book argues that middle-class immigrants, such as Korean immigrants in the Washington-Baltimore region, sustain more regular connections with the homeland through cultural, rather than economic or political, transnational activities. Though not as conspicuous and contentious as other forms of transnational participation, cultural transnational activities may prove to be more lasting and also serve as a backbone for maintaining longer-lasting connections and identities with the home country.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Korean Immigrants in the Washington-Baltimore Area
• 2 Connecting with the Home Country
• 3 Transnational Activities of Korean Immigrants
• 4 Cultural Transnational Activities
• 5 Where Is Home?
• 6 Compatibility of Assimilation with Ethnic Preservation and Transnationalism
• Conclusion
• References
• Index
• About the Author