Second-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada

Pyong Gap Min · Samuel Noh

oct 2014 · Lexington Books

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In Second-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada, Pyong Gap Min and Samuel Noh have compiled a comprehensive examination of 1.5- and second-generation Korean experiences in the United States and Canada. As the chapters demonstrate, comparing younger-generation Koreans with first-generation immigrants highlights generational changes in many areas of life. The contributors discuss socioeconomic attainments, self-employment rates and business patterns, marital patterns, participation in electoral politics, ethnic insularity among Korean Protestants, the relationship between perceived discrimination and mental health, the role of ethnic identity as stress moderator, and responses to racial marginalization. Using both quantitative and qualitative data sources, this collection is unique in its examination of several different aspects of second-generation Korean experiences in the United States and Canada. An indispensable source for those scholars and students researching Korean Americans or Korean Canadians, the volume provides insight for students and scholars of minorities, migration, ethnicity and race, and identity formation.

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Pyong Gap Min is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and director of the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College.

Samuel Noh is professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Research Scientist Emeritus at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and co-director of the Social Aetiology of Mental Illness (SAMI).