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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- A Phenomenological Approach to an Unexpected Public Experience in New York City -- A Self-Report Study -- Organization of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Public Setting of an Unexpected Experience in New York City -- Public Harassment -- Public Racism -- Public Crime -- Public Rudeness -- Public Kindness -- Public Panhandling -- Public Exhibition -- Public Conversation -- Public Filthiness -- References -- Chapter 3: The Essence of a Public Experience in New York City: The Situated Self in Public I -- Human Autonomy -- Human Community -- Human Intersectionality -- References -- Chapter 4: A Public Experience in New York City from the Lens of a Victim: The Situated Self in Public II -- Vigilant Agents -- Instinctive Defenders -- Situational Receptors -- Situational Escapers -- Fractured Agents -- References -- Chapter 5: A Public Experience in New York City from the Lens of a Bystander: The Situated Self in Public II -- Situational Observers -- Situational Stayers -- Situational Regulars -- Situational Avoiders -- Situational Participants -- Reference -- Chapter 6: A Personalized Public Style in New York City -- Public Harassment -- Public Racism -- Public Crime -- Public Rudeness -- Public Kindness -- Public Panhandling -- Public Exhibition -- Public Conversation -- Public Filthiness -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This book examines the essence of a particular personal experience within a New York City public space. The principal approach, both theoretical and methodological, is the phenomenological perspective, an in-depth study of such a surprising experience in the real world from the first-person point of view. The book introduces a new concept of the situated self, that is, the whole entity of the respondents subjective world about his or her particular urban experience in public. It is ones being-in-the-word or lived experience in the real world. Another important feature of the situated self is its comprehensive constitution of all certain human traits, perceptions, emotions, bodily sensations, cognition, and behavioral reaction, and their close situational connectivity to one another. By implication, this public experience of the situated self is a common denominator shared among regular users of New York City public spaces for making their city life with urban strangers more routinized, predictable, tolerant, and civic.

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Mediated Accounts of Graduate Education and Advising Relationships among US Korean Graduate Students Chapter 2 - Mediated Accounts of Institutional Matters upon Advising Relationships Chapter 3 - Mediated Accounts of Academic Matters upon Advising Relationships Chapter 4 - Mediated Accounts of Cultural Matters upon Advising Relationships Chapter 5 - Mediated Accounts of Social Matters upon Advising Relationships Chapter 6 - Conclusions and Implications Notes Bibliography Index

In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. In this book, Oh takes the online female Korean-American "MissyUSA" community under consideration to investigate the ways in which one group of immigrants shares information about the rules of American social institutions and works together to navigate their new society.

This study of a Korean-American women's online community, also known as the "MissyUSA" community, has incorporated the concept of social capital with an important topic within each of three major migration research areas—legal immigration status in assimilation, the retention of Korean culinary culture in cultural pluralism, and transnational plans in transnationalism. The central argument of this article is that this "MissyUSA" community creates social capital for its online members. One important form of social capital stressed here is social resources that correspond to its online members' (information seekers) access to valuable information regarding the process of obtaining legal status as documented immigrants, Korean-style cuisines, and their transnational plans. Moreover, social support is also regarded in this study as another form of social capital. In this case, the "MissyUSA" community becomes a network of social supporters by which they (respondents) support its information seekers through the transmission of their knowledge and/or through their positive emotional reactions.

The mechanisms shaping a shift in intrametropolitan self-employment remain poorly understood. In response, this study aims to examine shifts in both central-city and suburban self-employment by integrating the changing forces of intrametropolitan economy and population with their economic interdependence within an entire metropolitan area. Using a change-score model, data collected over two time-periods (1980—90 and 1990—2000) are pooled. The analysis shows that a decline in intrametropolitan manufacturing employment, which can be understood as an aspect of local economic restructuring, leads to an increase in intrametropolitan self-employment. Also, the data suggest that a rise in metropolitan-level immigrant population contributes to the growth of central-city self-employment. Moreover, this paper demonstrates that a shift in central-city self-employment is affected by both central-city and suburban economic transformations.

Much of the past research on rotating credit associations (RCAs) in the U.S. Korean community has been conducted in the context of Korean entrepreneurs' success in small businesses. By contrast, little has been known about the significance of RCAs in the lives of Korean immigrant workers. Based on a sample of Korean female workers at Korean-owned nail salons in the New York–New Jersey area, the first aim of this study is to address whether Korean immigrant workers, like Korean immigrant merchants, take into account RCAs as a way to save money or raise capital. Second, this study also speculates about the importance of embeddedness (Granovetter) and social capital (Portes and Sensenbrenner) views for both economic behavior and a likelihood of malfeasance by RCA participants. Lastly, this study regards RCA membership as a mechanism of social support for its participating members. Overall, the analyses provide evidence that RCA membership at nail salons leads to both economic benefit and social support for some of its participants, and that embedded networks and an accompanying sense of trust have some connection to the suppression of its members' latent malfeasance.

Abstract.  With the growing concern over the causal relationship between crime and population change, this study readdresses the importance of economic organization in studying population change in a metropolitan area. This study investigates the dynamic influences of internal and external factors on population change in either central cities or their suburbs. The units of analysis in this study are the 142 U.S. central cities and their suburban rings of Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in 1980 and 1990. Two change models (semi‐difference and mixed‐difference models) are used to predict population change. The results demonstrate that population change in one territory of a metropolitan area is affected by crime and employment opportunity in both locations of a metropolitan area.