Kwang Chung Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kwang Chung Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kwang Chung |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 280 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Korean Americans and Their Religions: Pilgrims and Missionaries from a Different Shore
Koreans in the Hood: Conflict with African Americans
Conflict between Korean Americans and African Americans attracted national attention in the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial in Los Angeles. The news media seized upon the violent riots and depicted Korean shop owners as gun-wielding exploiters of the African American poor. Absent from the barrage of media coverage was the Korean American point of view and experience of the inner city economy and racial relations. This new volume of essays…
Koreans in the Hood: Conflict with African Americans
Intrametropolitan Locations of Korean Businesses: The Case of Chicago
Intrametropolitan locations of Korean businesses in the Chicago area are examined in terms of the ethnicity of their major customers: ethnic customers, inner-city minority customers, and White middle-class customers. The study reveals that Korean-owned stores providing important ethnic goods or services are spatially concentrated in Koreatown along Lawrence and Lincoln Avenues and in the northwestern suburbs. Korean businesses that serve inner-ci…
Self-Employment Rates of Asian Immigrant Groups: An Analysis of Intragroup and Intergroup Differences
Self-employment rates and related business activities of four groups of recent adult Asian immigrants (Koreans, Chinese, Asian Indians, and Vietnamese) are empirically examined with the 1990 census data. As expected, both intra- and intergroup differences in self-employment rates are observed among the four groups. Korean immigrants are sharply different from other Asian immigrant groups in their rate of self-employment and pattern of intragroup …
Self-Employment Rates of Asian Immigrant Groups: An Analysis of Intragroup and Intergroup Differences
Self-employment rates and related business activities of four groups of recent adult Asian immigrants (Koreans, Chinese, Asian Indians, and Vietnamese) are empirically examined with the 1990 census data. As expected, both intra- and intergroup differences in self-employment rates are observed among the four groups. Korean immigrants are sharply different from other Asian immigrant groups in their rate of self-employment and pattern of intragroup …
Generation Differences in Korean Immigrants' Life Conditions in the United States
Generation differences between Korean immigrant adult children and elderly parents are examined in terms of their life conditions in the United States. Data for this study were collected through interviewing 622 Korean adult immigrants in the Chicago area in 1986. The life conditions of adult children and elderly parents are inferred from the two groups of respondents: the young and the elderly. The life conditions of these two groups are found t…
Beyond assimilation and pluralism; syncretic sociocultural adaptation of Korean immigrants in the US
Two traditional theories of adaptation of immigrants in the United States, assimilation and pluralism, are based on the assumption that the two processes, Americanization and ethnic attachment, are mutually exclusive. Such an assumption of mutual exclusiveness or zero-sum model limits the utility of the two theories. A conceptual model is presented in this article which includes an additive mode of adaptation based on the idea of non-exclusive-ne…
Correlates of Korean Immigrants?? Mental Health
The main objectives of this paper are an empirical investigation of major structural and situational variables related to Korean immigrants' mental health and a theoretical exploration of the meaning of the empirical findings. As part of a larger epidemiological research, the data for this paper derive from diagnostic interviews of 622 Korean immigrants (20 years and older) residing in the Chicago area. Data analyses reveal that, among the respon…
Adaptation Stages and Mental Health of Korean Male Immigrants in the United States
Adaptation Stages and Mental Health of Korean Male Immigrants in the United States
This study examines the variation patterns of Korean male immigrants’ mental health in relation to their length of residence in the United States and identifies significant factors related to the variations. The main hypothesis suggests two critical stages in which Korean immigrants’ mental health would become highly vulnerable—the early exigency stage (1–2 years after immigration) and the later marginality stage (11–15 years after immigration). …
Religious Participation of Korean Immigrants in the United States
The specific aims of this research were: (1) to review past studies on the Korean ethnic church in the U.S., (2) to analyze the religious participation patterns of Korean immigrants in light of various theories on the immigrant church, and (3) to explore theoretical and practical implications of the findings from historical, comparative, and structural perspectives. The empirical data for this study derived from interviews with 622 Korean immigra…
Short reviews
Wayne Patterson, THE KOREAN FRONTIER IN AMERICA, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 1988 Ivan Light and Edna Bonacich, IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS: KOREANS IN LOS ANGELES, 1965–1982, Berkeley, Calif.: University of Califoria Press, 1988. Pyong Gap Min, ETHNIC BUSINESS ENTERPRISE: KOREAN SMALL BUSINESS IN ATLANTA, New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1988. Louis‐Jacques Dorais, Lise Pilon‐Le and Nguyen Huy, EXILE IN A COLD LAND: A VIETNAMESE COMM…
Intra-group Differences in Business Participation: Three Asian Immigrant Groups
This investigates the ethnic and nativity differentials in self-employment based on small-business experiences of three Asian immigrant groups in the U.S. –Korean, Chinese, and Asian Indians. In light of the 1980 Census data, the intra- and the inter-group differences in the business participation rates of these Asian immigrant groups are examined. Findings reveal that each group has substantial intra-group differences in the business participati…
Intra-Group Differences in Business Participation: Three Asian Immigrant Groups
This study investigates ethnic and nativity differentials in self-employment based on the small-business experiences of 3 Asian immigrant groups in the US: Korean, Chinese, and Asian Indians. In light of the 1980 Census data, the intra- and the inter-group differences in the business participation rates of these Asian immigrant groups are examined. Findings reveal that each group has substantial intra-group differences in the business participati…
The 'success' image of Asian Americans: Its validity, and its practical and theoretical implications1
The success stereotype of Asian Americans is examined in terms of three major research questions. (1) What factors account for the vicissitudes of the dominant group's perception of Asian Americans since 1850? (2) To what extent is the current success image of Asian Americans true? (3) How would such a model minority image affect Asian Americans, the other minorities, and majority Americans? The first question is addressed by historical data, and…
The burden of double roles: Korean wives in the USA
1988). The burden of double roles: Korean wives in the USA. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 151-167
Korean Immigrants in America: Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation
Ethnic Resources Utilization of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the Chicago Minority Area
Ethnic Resources Utilization of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the Chicago Minority Area
A high proportion of Korean immigrants are currently engaged in self-employed small business in the United States. In light of their business proliferation, this study has empirically investigated Korean immigrant entrepreneurs’ ethnic resources utilization. Findings indicate that the Korean entrepreneurs rely heavily on their ethnic resources for both business preparation and operation. While such ethnic resources utilization facilitates the imm…
Korean Immigrants in America: A Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation
An analysis of recent immigration from Korea to the United States is presented. The authors describe the historical background to this migration the process of adaptation and other social issues. A chapter is included on the demographic characteristics of Korean immigrants according to official U.S. data. Another chapter by Siyoung Park deals with patterns of settlement including residential distribution and mobility. (ANNOTATION)
Adhesive Sociocultural Adaptation of Korean Immigrants in the U.S: An Alternative Strategy of Minority Adaptation
Adhesive Sociocultural Adaptation of Korean Immigrants in the U.S: An Alternative Strategy of Minority Adaptation
Adhesive adaptation is conceptualized as a particular mode of adaptation in which certain aspects of the new culture and social relations with members of the host society are added on to the immigrants’ traditional culture and social networks, without replacing or modifying any significant part of the old. In light of this conceptual framework, various patterns of Korean immigrants’ adaptation in the U.S. are examined. For data collection, 615 Ko…
Letters
Korean Americans and the “Success” Image: A Critique
Asian Americans have been recently depicted as “successful” or “model” ethnic groups despite their past sufferings from prejudice and discrimination. This image of Asian Americans and their reputed position in the American racial and ethnic hierarchy raises several questions. First, to what degree is this image valid? Second, how has the success of Asian Americans been empirically measured and interpreted? Third, what are the implications of such…
The 'success' image of Asian Americans: Its validity, and its practical and theoretical implications1
The success stereotype of Asian Americans is examined in terms of three major research questions. (1) What factors account for the vicissitudes of the dominant group's perception of Asian Americans since 1850? (2) To what extent is the current success image of Asian Americans true? (3) How would such a model minority image affect Asian Americans, the other minorities, and majority Americans? The first question is addressed by historical data, and…
Religious Participation of Korean Immigrants in the United States
The specific aims of this research were: (1) to review past studies on the Korean ethnic church in the U.S., (2) to analyze the religious participation patterns of Korean immigrants in light of various theories on the immigrant church, and (3) to explore theoretical and practical implications of the findings from historical, comparative, and structural perspectives. The empirical data for this study derived from interviews with 622 Korean immigra…
Beyond assimilation and pluralism; syncretic sociocultural adaptation of Korean immigrants in the US
Two traditional theories of adaptation of immigrants in the United States, assimilation and pluralism, are based on the assumption that the two processes, Americanization and ethnic attachment, are mutually exclusive. Such an assumption of mutual exclusiveness or zero-sum model limits the utility of the two theories. A conceptual model is presented in this article which includes an additive mode of adaptation based on the idea of non-exclusive-ne…
The burden of double roles: Korean wives in the USA
1988). The burden of double roles: Korean wives in the USA. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 151-167
Adhesive Sociocultural Adaptation of Korean Immigrants in the U.S: An Alternative Strategy of Minority Adaptation
Ethnic Resources Utilization of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the Chicago Minority Area
A high proportion of Korean immigrants are currently engaged in self-employed small business in the United States. In light of their business proliferation, this study has empirically investigated Korean immigrant entrepreneurs’ ethnic resources utilization. Findings indicate that the Korean entrepreneurs rely heavily on their ethnic resources for both business preparation and operation. While such ethnic resources utilization facilitates the imm…
Adhesive Sociocultural Adaptation of Korean Immigrants in the U.S: An Alternative Strategy of Minority Adaptation
Adhesive adaptation is conceptualized as a particular mode of adaptation in which certain aspects of the new culture and social relations with members of the host society are added on to the immigrants’ traditional culture and social networks, without replacing or modifying any significant part of the old. In light of this conceptual framework, various patterns of Korean immigrants’ adaptation in the U.S. are examined. For data collection, 615 Ko…
Ethnic Resources Utilization of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the Chicago Minority Area
Adaptation Stages and Mental Health of Korean Male Immigrants in the United States
This study examines the variation patterns of Korean male immigrants’ mental health in relation to their length of residence in the United States and identifies significant factors related to the variations. The main hypothesis suggests two critical stages in which Korean immigrants’ mental health would become highly vulnerable—the early exigency stage (1–2 years after immigration) and the later marginality stage (11–15 years after immigration). …
Korean Americans and Their Religions: Pilgrims and Missionaries from a Different Shore
Intrametropolitan Locations of Korean Businesses: The Case of Chicago
Intrametropolitan locations of Korean businesses in the Chicago area are examined in terms of the ethnicity of their major customers: ethnic customers, inner-city minority customers, and White middle-class customers. The study reveals that Korean-owned stores providing important ethnic goods or services are spatially concentrated in Koreatown along Lawrence and Lincoln Avenues and in the northwestern suburbs. Korean businesses that serve inner-ci…
Intra-group Differences in Business Participation: Three Asian Immigrant Groups
This investigates the ethnic and nativity differentials in self-employment based on small-business experiences of three Asian immigrant groups in the U.S. –Korean, Chinese, and Asian Indians. In light of the 1980 Census data, the intra- and the inter-group differences in the business participation rates of these Asian immigrant groups are examined. Findings reveal that each group has substantial intra-group differences in the business participati…
Adaptation Stages and Mental Health of Korean Male Immigrants in the United States
Intra-Group Differences in Business Participation: Three Asian Immigrant Groups
This study investigates ethnic and nativity differentials in self-employment based on the small-business experiences of 3 Asian immigrant groups in the US: Korean, Chinese, and Asian Indians. In light of the 1980 Census data, the intra- and the inter-group differences in the business participation rates of these Asian immigrant groups are examined. Findings reveal that each group has substantial intra-group differences in the business participati…
Korean Americans and the “Success” Image: A Critique
Asian Americans have been recently depicted as “successful” or “model” ethnic groups despite their past sufferings from prejudice and discrimination. This image of Asian Americans and their reputed position in the American racial and ethnic hierarchy raises several questions. First, to what degree is this image valid? Second, how has the success of Asian Americans been empirically measured and interpreted? Third, what are the implications of such…
Self-Employment Rates of Asian Immigrant Groups: An Analysis of Intragroup and Intergroup Differences
Self-employment rates and related business activities of four groups of recent adult Asian immigrants (Koreans, Chinese, Asian Indians, and Vietnamese) are empirically examined with the 1990 census data. As expected, both intra- and intergroup differences in self-employment rates are observed among the four groups. Korean immigrants are sharply different from other Asian immigrant groups in their rate of self-employment and pattern of intragroup …
Self-Employment Rates of Asian Immigrant Groups: An Analysis of Intragroup and Intergroup Differences
Self-employment rates and related business activities of four groups of recent adult Asian immigrants (Koreans, Chinese, Asian Indians, and Vietnamese) are empirically examined with the 1990 census data. As expected, both intra- and intergroup differences in self-employment rates are observed among the four groups. Korean immigrants are sharply different from other Asian immigrant groups in their rate of self-employment and pattern of intragroup …
Generation Differences in Korean Immigrants' Life Conditions in the United States
Generation differences between Korean immigrant adult children and elderly parents are examined in terms of their life conditions in the United States. Data for this study were collected through interviewing 622 Korean adult immigrants in the Chicago area in 1986. The life conditions of adult children and elderly parents are inferred from the two groups of respondents: the young and the elderly. The life conditions of these two groups are found t…
Korean Immigrants in America: A Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation
An analysis of recent immigration from Korea to the United States is presented. The authors describe the historical background to this migration the process of adaptation and other social issues. A chapter is included on the demographic characteristics of Korean immigrants according to official U.S. data. Another chapter by Siyoung Park deals with patterns of settlement including residential distribution and mobility. (ANNOTATION)
Korean Immigrants in America: Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation
Letters
Korean Americans and the “Success” Image: A Critique
Asian Americans have been recently depicted as “successful” or “model” ethnic groups despite their past sufferings from prejudice and discrimination. This image of Asian Americans and their reputed position in the American racial and ethnic hierarchy raises several questions. First, to what degree is this image valid? Second, how has the success of Asian Americans been empirically measured and interpreted? Third, what are the implications of such…
Recruitment of college-educated employees in Korea
Adhesive Sociocultural Adaptation of Korean Immigrants in the U.S: An Alternative Strategy of Minority Adaptation
Adhesive Sociocultural Adaptation of Korean Immigrants in the U.S: An Alternative Strategy of Minority Adaptation
Adhesive adaptation is conceptualized as a particular mode of adaptation in which certain aspects of the new culture and social relations with members of the host society are added on to the immigrants’ traditional culture and social networks, without replacing or modifying any significant part of the old. In light of this conceptual framework, various patterns of Korean immigrants’ adaptation in the U.S. are examined. For data collection, 615 Ko…
Korean Immigrants in America: Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation
Ethnic Resources Utilization of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the Chicago Minority Area
Ethnic Resources Utilization of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the Chicago Minority Area
A high proportion of Korean immigrants are currently engaged in self-employed small business in the United States. In light of their business proliferation, this study has empirically investigated Korean immigrant entrepreneurs’ ethnic resources utilization. Findings indicate that the Korean entrepreneurs rely heavily on their ethnic resources for both business preparation and operation. While such ethnic resources utilization facilitates the imm…
Korean Immigrants in America: A Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation
An analysis of recent immigration from Korea to the United States is presented. The authors describe the historical background to this migration the process of adaptation and other social issues. A chapter is included on the demographic characteristics of Korean immigrants according to official U.S. data. Another chapter by Siyoung Park deals with patterns of settlement including residential distribution and mobility. (ANNOTATION)
The burden of double roles: Korean wives in the USA
1988). The burden of double roles: Korean wives in the USA. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 151-167
Short reviews
Wayne Patterson, THE KOREAN FRONTIER IN AMERICA, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 1988 Ivan Light and Edna Bonacich, IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS: KOREANS IN LOS ANGELES, 1965–1982, Berkeley, Calif.: University of Califoria Press, 1988. Pyong Gap Min, ETHNIC BUSINESS ENTERPRISE: KOREAN SMALL BUSINESS IN ATLANTA, New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1988. Louis‐Jacques Dorais, Lise Pilon‐Le and Nguyen Huy, EXILE IN A COLD LAND: A VIETNAMESE COMM…
Intra-group Differences in Business Participation: Three Asian Immigrant Groups
This investigates the ethnic and nativity differentials in self-employment based on small-business experiences of three Asian immigrant groups in the U.S. –Korean, Chinese, and Asian Indians. In light of the 1980 Census data, the intra- and the inter-group differences in the business participation rates of these Asian immigrant groups are examined. Findings reveal that each group has substantial intra-group differences in the business participati…
Intra-Group Differences in Business Participation: Three Asian Immigrant Groups
This study investigates ethnic and nativity differentials in self-employment based on the small-business experiences of 3 Asian immigrant groups in the US: Korean, Chinese, and Asian Indians. In light of the 1980 Census data, the intra- and the inter-group differences in the business participation rates of these Asian immigrant groups are examined. Findings reveal that each group has substantial intra-group differences in the business participati…
The 'success' image of Asian Americans: Its validity, and its practical and theoretical implications1
The success stereotype of Asian Americans is examined in terms of three major research questions. (1) What factors account for the vicissitudes of the dominant group's perception of Asian Americans since 1850? (2) To what extent is the current success image of Asian Americans true? (3) How would such a model minority image affect Asian Americans, the other minorities, and majority Americans? The first question is addressed by historical data, and…
Correlates of Korean Immigrants?? Mental Health
The main objectives of this paper are an empirical investigation of major structural and situational variables related to Korean immigrants' mental health and a theoretical exploration of the meaning of the empirical findings. As part of a larger epidemiological research, the data for this paper derive from diagnostic interviews of 622 Korean immigrants (20 years and older) residing in the Chicago area. Data analyses reveal that, among the respon…
Adaptation Stages and Mental Health of Korean Male Immigrants in the United States
Adaptation Stages and Mental Health of Korean Male Immigrants in the United States
This study examines the variation patterns of Korean male immigrants’ mental health in relation to their length of residence in the United States and identifies significant factors related to the variations. The main hypothesis suggests two critical stages in which Korean immigrants’ mental health would become highly vulnerable—the early exigency stage (1–2 years after immigration) and the later marginality stage (11–15 years after immigration). …
Religious Participation of Korean Immigrants in the United States
The specific aims of this research were: (1) to review past studies on the Korean ethnic church in the U.S., (2) to analyze the religious participation patterns of Korean immigrants in light of various theories on the immigrant church, and (3) to explore theoretical and practical implications of the findings from historical, comparative, and structural perspectives. The empirical data for this study derived from interviews with 622 Korean immigra…
Generation Differences in Korean Immigrants' Life Conditions in the United States
Generation differences between Korean immigrant adult children and elderly parents are examined in terms of their life conditions in the United States. Data for this study were collected through interviewing 622 Korean adult immigrants in the Chicago area in 1986. The life conditions of adult children and elderly parents are inferred from the two groups of respondents: the young and the elderly. The life conditions of these two groups are found t…
Beyond assimilation and pluralism; syncretic sociocultural adaptation of Korean immigrants in the US
Two traditional theories of adaptation of immigrants in the United States, assimilation and pluralism, are based on the assumption that the two processes, Americanization and ethnic attachment, are mutually exclusive. Such an assumption of mutual exclusiveness or zero-sum model limits the utility of the two theories. A conceptual model is presented in this article which includes an additive mode of adaptation based on the idea of non-exclusive-ne…
Intrametropolitan Locations of Korean Businesses: The Case of Chicago
Intrametropolitan locations of Korean businesses in the Chicago area are examined in terms of the ethnicity of their major customers: ethnic customers, inner-city minority customers, and White middle-class customers. The study reveals that Korean-owned stores providing important ethnic goods or services are spatially concentrated in Koreatown along Lawrence and Lincoln Avenues and in the northwestern suburbs. Korean businesses that serve inner-ci…
Self-Employment Rates of Asian Immigrant Groups: An Analysis of Intragroup and Intergroup Differences
Self-employment rates and related business activities of four groups of recent adult Asian immigrants (Koreans, Chinese, Asian Indians, and Vietnamese) are empirically examined with the 1990 census data. As expected, both intra- and intergroup differences in self-employment rates are observed among the four groups. Korean immigrants are sharply different from other Asian immigrant groups in their rate of self-employment and pattern of intragroup …
Self-Employment Rates of Asian Immigrant Groups: An Analysis of Intragroup and Intergroup Differences
Self-employment rates and related business activities of four groups of recent adult Asian immigrants (Koreans, Chinese, Asian Indians, and Vietnamese) are empirically examined with the 1990 census data. As expected, both intra- and intergroup differences in self-employment rates are observed among the four groups. Korean immigrants are sharply different from other Asian immigrant groups in their rate of self-employment and pattern of intragroup …
Koreans in the Hood: Conflict with African Americans
Koreans in the Hood: Conflict with African Americans
Conflict between Korean Americans and African Americans attracted national attention in the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial in Los Angeles. The news media seized upon the violent riots and depicted Korean shop owners as gun-wielding exploiters of the African American poor. Absent from the barrage of media coverage was the Korean American point of view and experience of the inner city economy and racial relations. This new volume of essays…
Sociology (18 works) · Immigration (17 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Economics (13 works) · Ethnic group (13 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Geography (9 works)