Timothy C Lim
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1261326 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Timothy C Lim |
| NOMBRES | Timothy C |
| APELLIDO | Lim |
| FIRMA | LIM T C |
| AFILIACIONES | California State University Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5167-998X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Challenging the “Hierarchy of Nationhood”
With about 7.5 million people, the Korean diaspora is concentrated in China, Japan, North America, and the former Soviet Union. Since the 1990s, many ethnic Koreans have been “returning” to South Korea, their putative ethnic homeland. Significantly, their treatment by the state has been unequal: On issues of residency and employment rights, ethnic Koreans from China (Chosŏnjok) and the former Soviet Union were relegated to second-class status com…
Ideas, Discourse, and the Microfoundations of South Korea’s Diasporic Engagement
This article endeavors to explain South Korea’s institutional turn to “diaspora engagement,” which began in earnest in the late 1990s. This shift can easily be attributed to instrumentalist calculations on the part of the South Korean state, i.e., as an effort to “tap into” or exploit the human and capital resources of ethnic Koreans living outside of the country. But instrumental calculations and interests, while significant and clearly proximat…
The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea
This book aims to capture the complicated development of Korea from monoethnic to multicultural society, challenging the narrative of “ethnonational continuity” in Korea through a discursive institutional approach. At a time when immigration is changing the face of South Korea and an increasingly diverse society becomes empirical fact, this doesn’t necessarily mean that multiculturalism has been embraced as a normative, policy-based response to t…
It’s not just talk
Despite decades of large-scale immigration, systemic and institutionalized racism and ethnonationalism remain very strong in South Korea. One reason is obvious: South Korea is the quintessential homogeneous nation-state. Many observers, in fact, believe that it is one of the few societies in the world that is naturally homogenous. For this and other reasons, the prospect that South Korea can or will transform from homogenous nation-state to multi…
Doing Comparative Politics
South Korea as an 'Ordinary' Country
South Korea has often been portrayed as a special country. Certainly, its rapid rise from a poor, technologically backward economy in the 1950s to a significant, even dominant, economic player in high-tech consumer and industrial markets by the 1990s has been exceptional. There is no denying, moreover, that the country has unique historical and cultural characteristics. Nonetheless, this paper argues that, in terms of those processes related to e…
Rethinking Belongingness in Korea
In 2006, a 30-year-old American football player, Hines won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award in the Super Bowl. Mr. Ward happened to have a Korean mother and an African-American father. Virtually overnight, Mr. Ward became a veritable sensation in his birthplace, which was more than a bit ironic given the long and very intense discrimination by Koreans against mixed-blood (honhyol) children and their mothers. irony of the situation, as Mary Le…
Who is Korean? Migration, Immigration, and the Challenge of Multiculturalism in Homogeneous Societies
I don't know," opines a 31-year old Korean woman. "I have always believed that Korea is a single-race country. And I'm proud of that. Somehow, Korea becoming a multiracial society doesn't sound right." This is not an unusual view. Indeed, the large majority of Koreans would likely agree that Korean society is inextricably tied to and defined by a unique Korean identity, one based on an uncompromising conflation of race and ethnicity. The strong t…
Racing from The Bottom in South Korea
This article examines the role that "civil society" in South Korea has played in promoting the rights of transnational migrant workers in an era of globalization. The analysis concludes that the nexus between the country's civil society and transnational workers has been critical in the process of slowing the "race to the bottom
The Fight for Equal Rights
On September 9, 1997, the South Korean government announced that, under certain conditions, foreign workers would be granted the same basic labor rights as domestic workers: the rights to organize, to bargain collectively, and to strike. Foreign workers were also accorded the same protections under the Labor Standard Law, the Medical Insurance Law, and the Industrial Disaster Law that native Korean workers receive; and they given were the right t…
The Origins of Societal Power in South Korea
In seeking to explain the social, political and economic development of South Korea since liberation in 1945, many scholars have begun paying increasing attention to the significance of Korea's colonial past. Most of these scholars have, for very good reasons, focused on fundamental-even revolutionary-changes in Korea's institutional structure, which for centuries had been dominated by a landed aristocracy 'intent upon the preservation of its soc…
Power, capitalism, and the authoritarian state in South Korea
Rethinking Belongingness in Korea
In 2006, a 30-year-old American football player, Hines won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award in the Super Bowl. Mr. Ward happened to have a Korean mother and an African-American father. Virtually overnight, Mr. Ward became a veritable sensation in his birthplace, which was more than a bit ironic given the long and very intense discrimination by Koreans against mixed-blood (honhyol) children and their mothers. irony of the situation, as Mary Le…
Racing from The Bottom in South Korea
This article examines the role that "civil society" in South Korea has played in promoting the rights of transnational migrant workers in an era of globalization. The analysis concludes that the nexus between the country's civil society and transnational workers has been critical in the process of slowing the "race to the bottom
Power, capitalism, and the authoritarian state in South Korea
South Korea as an 'Ordinary' Country
South Korea has often been portrayed as a special country. Certainly, its rapid rise from a poor, technologically backward economy in the 1950s to a significant, even dominant, economic player in high-tech consumer and industrial markets by the 1990s has been exceptional. There is no denying, moreover, that the country has unique historical and cultural characteristics. Nonetheless, this paper argues that, in terms of those processes related to e…
Who is Korean? Migration, Immigration, and the Challenge of Multiculturalism in Homogeneous Societies
I don't know," opines a 31-year old Korean woman. "I have always believed that Korea is a single-race country. And I'm proud of that. Somehow, Korea becoming a multiracial society doesn't sound right." This is not an unusual view. Indeed, the large majority of Koreans would likely agree that Korean society is inextricably tied to and defined by a unique Korean identity, one based on an uncompromising conflation of race and ethnicity. The strong t…
Ideas, Discourse, and the Microfoundations of South Korea’s Diasporic Engagement
This article endeavors to explain South Korea’s institutional turn to “diaspora engagement,” which began in earnest in the late 1990s. This shift can easily be attributed to instrumentalist calculations on the part of the South Korean state, i.e., as an effort to “tap into” or exploit the human and capital resources of ethnic Koreans living outside of the country. But instrumental calculations and interests, while significant and clearly proximat…
It’s not just talk
Despite decades of large-scale immigration, systemic and institutionalized racism and ethnonationalism remain very strong in South Korea. One reason is obvious: South Korea is the quintessential homogeneous nation-state. Many observers, in fact, believe that it is one of the few societies in the world that is naturally homogenous. For this and other reasons, the prospect that South Korea can or will transform from homogenous nation-state to multi…
The Fight for Equal Rights
On September 9, 1997, the South Korean government announced that, under certain conditions, foreign workers would be granted the same basic labor rights as domestic workers: the rights to organize, to bargain collectively, and to strike. Foreign workers were also accorded the same protections under the Labor Standard Law, the Medical Insurance Law, and the Industrial Disaster Law that native Korean workers receive; and they given were the right t…
The Origins of Societal Power in South Korea
In seeking to explain the social, political and economic development of South Korea since liberation in 1945, many scholars have begun paying increasing attention to the significance of Korea's colonial past. Most of these scholars have, for very good reasons, focused on fundamental-even revolutionary-changes in Korea's institutional structure, which for centuries had been dominated by a landed aristocracy 'intent upon the preservation of its soc…
Power, capitalism, and the authoritarian state in South Korea
The Fight for Equal Rights
On September 9, 1997, the South Korean government announced that, under certain conditions, foreign workers would be granted the same basic labor rights as domestic workers: the rights to organize, to bargain collectively, and to strike. Foreign workers were also accorded the same protections under the Labor Standard Law, the Medical Insurance Law, and the Industrial Disaster Law that native Korean workers receive; and they given were the right t…
The Origins of Societal Power in South Korea
In seeking to explain the social, political and economic development of South Korea since liberation in 1945, many scholars have begun paying increasing attention to the significance of Korea's colonial past. Most of these scholars have, for very good reasons, focused on fundamental-even revolutionary-changes in Korea's institutional structure, which for centuries had been dominated by a landed aristocracy 'intent upon the preservation of its soc…
Racing from The Bottom in South Korea
This article examines the role that "civil society" in South Korea has played in promoting the rights of transnational migrant workers in an era of globalization. The analysis concludes that the nexus between the country's civil society and transnational workers has been critical in the process of slowing the "race to the bottom
Who is Korean? Migration, Immigration, and the Challenge of Multiculturalism in Homogeneous Societies
I don't know," opines a 31-year old Korean woman. "I have always believed that Korea is a single-race country. And I'm proud of that. Somehow, Korea becoming a multiracial society doesn't sound right." This is not an unusual view. Indeed, the large majority of Koreans would likely agree that Korean society is inextricably tied to and defined by a unique Korean identity, one based on an uncompromising conflation of race and ethnicity. The strong t…
Rethinking Belongingness in Korea
In 2006, a 30-year-old American football player, Hines won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award in the Super Bowl. Mr. Ward happened to have a Korean mother and an African-American father. Virtually overnight, Mr. Ward became a veritable sensation in his birthplace, which was more than a bit ironic given the long and very intense discrimination by Koreans against mixed-blood (honhyol) children and their mothers. irony of the situation, as Mary Le…
South Korea as an 'Ordinary' Country
South Korea has often been portrayed as a special country. Certainly, its rapid rise from a poor, technologically backward economy in the 1950s to a significant, even dominant, economic player in high-tech consumer and industrial markets by the 1990s has been exceptional. There is no denying, moreover, that the country has unique historical and cultural characteristics. Nonetheless, this paper argues that, in terms of those processes related to e…
Doing Comparative Politics
The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea
This book aims to capture the complicated development of Korea from monoethnic to multicultural society, challenging the narrative of “ethnonational continuity” in Korea through a discursive institutional approach. At a time when immigration is changing the face of South Korea and an increasingly diverse society becomes empirical fact, this doesn’t necessarily mean that multiculturalism has been embraced as a normative, policy-based response to t…
It’s not just talk
Despite decades of large-scale immigration, systemic and institutionalized racism and ethnonationalism remain very strong in South Korea. One reason is obvious: South Korea is the quintessential homogeneous nation-state. Many observers, in fact, believe that it is one of the few societies in the world that is naturally homogenous. For this and other reasons, the prospect that South Korea can or will transform from homogenous nation-state to multi…
Challenging the “Hierarchy of Nationhood”
With about 7.5 million people, the Korean diaspora is concentrated in China, Japan, North America, and the former Soviet Union. Since the 1990s, many ethnic Koreans have been “returning” to South Korea, their putative ethnic homeland. Significantly, their treatment by the state has been unequal: On issues of residency and employment rights, ethnic Koreans from China (Chosŏnjok) and the former Soviet Union were relegated to second-class status com…
Ideas, Discourse, and the Microfoundations of South Korea’s Diasporic Engagement
This article endeavors to explain South Korea’s institutional turn to “diaspora engagement,” which began in earnest in the late 1990s. This shift can easily be attributed to instrumentalist calculations on the part of the South Korean state, i.e., as an effort to “tap into” or exploit the human and capital resources of ethnic Koreans living outside of the country. But instrumental calculations and interests, while significant and clearly proximat…
Political science (11 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (7 obras) · Political economy (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Development economics (4 obras)