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"Transnational Cultural Flow from Home examines New York Korean immigrants' collective efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and cultural practices and their efforts to transmit and promote them to New Yorkers by focusing on the Korean cultural elements such as language, foods, cultural festivals, and traditional and contemporary performing arts"--

Transnational Cultural Flow from Home examines New York Korean immigrants' collective efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and cultural practices and their efforts to transmit and promote them to New Yorkers by focusing on the Korean cultural elements such as language, foods, cultural festivals, and traditional and contemporary performing arts

Introduction : background information about Japanese military sexual slavery and the redress movement for the victims -- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks -- Enough information, but the issue buried for half century -- The emergence of the "comfort women" issue and victims' breaking silence -- General information about the comfort women system -- Forced mobilization of comfort women -- Payments of fees and affectionate relationships -- Sexual exploitation, violence, and threats at "comfort stations" -- Perils of Korean "comfort women's" homecoming trips -- Korean "comfort women's" life in Korea and China -- Progress of the redress movement in Korea -- Divided responses to the redress movement in Japan -- Responses to the redress movement in the United States --Conclusion.

Introduction /Pyong Gap Min --The Immigration of Koreans to the United States: A Review of Forty-Five Year (1965-2009) Trends /Pyong Gap Min --Growth and Settlement Patterns of Korean Americans /Chigon Kim --Changes in Korean Immigrants' Business Patterns /Pyong Gap Min --A Comparison of Korean Protestant, Catholic, and Buddhist Religious Institutions in New York /Pyong Gap Min --Explaining the Migration Strategy: Comparing Transnational and Intact Migrant Families from South Korea to Canada /Samuel Noh --Transnational Interactions among Korean Immigrants in Toronto: Family Ties and Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Political Participation /Joe Jeong Ho Han --The Bifurcated Statuses of the Wives of Korean International Students /Se Hwa Lee --Transnationalism and "Third Culture Kids": A Comparative Analysis of Korean American and Korean Chinese Identity Construction /Helene K. Lee --Authenticity Dilemma among Pre-1965 Native-Born Koreans /Linda S. Park --A Four-Decade Literature on Korean Americans: A Review and Comprehensive Bibliography /Pyong Gap Min.

Koreans in North America covers various topics related to Korean experiences in the U.S. and Canada, including their immigration and settlement patterns, changes in business patterns, and identity, comprehensively. It also focuses on Korean Americans' twenty-first century experiences, using both quantitative and qualitative data.

"Preserving Ethnicity through Religion in America explores the factors that may lead to greater success in ethnic preservation. Pyong Gap Min compares Indian Americans and Korean Americans, two of the most significant ethnic groups in New York, and examines the different ways in which they preserve their ethnicity through their faith. Does someone feel more 'Indian' because they practice Hinduism? Does membership in a Korean Protestant church aid in maintaining ties to Korean culture? Pushing beyond sociological research on religion and ethnicity which has tended to focus on whites or on a single immigrant group or on a single generation, Min also takes actual religious practice and theology seriously, rather than gauging religiosity based primarily on belonging to a congregation. Fascinating and provocative voices of informants from two generations combine with telephone survey data to help readers understand overall patterns of religious practices for each group under consideration. Preserving Ethnicity through Religion in America is remarkable in its scope, its theoretical significance, and its methodological sophistication"--Provided by publisher