Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age : The Korean Community in the Nation's Capital

Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age : The Korean Community in the Nation's Capital

Author
Dae Young KimYoung A. JungGyu Tag Lee
Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Language
English
Year
2017
Page
253
ISBN
9781498541763,9781498541756
File Type
epub
File Size
1.1 MiB

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.

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