Rebecca Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 4178398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pepperdine University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8309-9891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Estranged Pioneers: The Case of African American and Asian American Multiracial Church Pastors
This article draws upon 121 in-depth interviews from the Religious Leadership and Diversity Project (RLDP)-a nationwide study of leadership of multiracial religious organizations in the United States-to examine what it means for African American and Asian American pastors to head multiracial churches. We argue that African American and Asian American pastors of multiracial churches are estranged pioneers. They have to leave the familiar to explor…
Evangelizing White Americans: Sacrifice, Race, and a Korean Mission Movement in America
This paper examines the phenomena of non-western missionaries evangelizing in the West through a case study of a Korean mission movement in the United States. It discusses how Korean missionaries of color were able to evangelize white Americans in the late 1970s and have had some success in crossracial evangelism. It argues that Korean missionaries practiced a theology of sacrifice to evangelize white Americans. They practically embraced sufferin…
Transnationalism and American Exports in an English-Speaking World
Investigating the relationship between immigration, middleman minority status, transnationalism, and U.S. foreign trade, the authors assembled a census-based data file that contains aggregate-level variables for 88 foreign-born groups by national origin between 1980 and 1990. They regressed immigrant characteristics and immigration volume upon time-lagged import/export statistics from the same 88 nations between 1985 and 1995. Results show the in…
Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities. Fenggang Yang
Immigrant Incorporation in the Garment Industry of Los Angeles
Immigrant Incorporation in the Garment Industry of Los Angeles
Stressing the network's facilitation of immigrants’ searches for jobs and housing, migration network theory has conceptually overlooked the manner in which immigrants’ social networks also expand the supply of jobs and housing in target destinations by means of the ethnic economy. An expanded migration network theory takes into account the ethnic economy's role in creating new resources in the destination economy. However, the power of this objec…
Immigrant Incorporation in the Garment Industry of Los Angeles
Estranged Pioneers: The Case of African American and Asian American Multiracial Church Pastors
This article draws upon 121 in-depth interviews from the Religious Leadership and Diversity Project (RLDP)-a nationwide study of leadership of multiracial religious organizations in the United States-to examine what it means for African American and Asian American pastors to head multiracial churches. We argue that African American and Asian American pastors of multiracial churches are estranged pioneers. They have to leave the familiar to explor…
Immigrant Incorporation in the Garment Industry of Los Angeles
Stressing the network's facilitation of immigrants’ searches for jobs and housing, migration network theory has conceptually overlooked the manner in which immigrants’ social networks also expand the supply of jobs and housing in target destinations by means of the ethnic economy. An expanded migration network theory takes into account the ethnic economy's role in creating new resources in the destination economy. However, the power of this objec…
Transnationalism and American Exports in an English-Speaking World
Investigating the relationship between immigration, middleman minority status, transnationalism, and U.S. foreign trade, the authors assembled a census-based data file that contains aggregate-level variables for 88 foreign-born groups by national origin between 1980 and 1990. They regressed immigrant characteristics and immigration volume upon time-lagged import/export statistics from the same 88 nations between 1985 and 1995. Results show the in…
Immigrant Incorporation in the Garment Industry of Los Angeles
Immigrant Incorporation in the Garment Industry of Los Angeles
Stressing the network's facilitation of immigrants’ searches for jobs and housing, migration network theory has conceptually overlooked the manner in which immigrants’ social networks also expand the supply of jobs and housing in target destinations by means of the ethnic economy. An expanded migration network theory takes into account the ethnic economy's role in creating new resources in the destination economy. However, the power of this objec…
Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities. Fenggang Yang
Transnationalism and American Exports in an English-Speaking World
Investigating the relationship between immigration, middleman minority status, transnationalism, and U.S. foreign trade, the authors assembled a census-based data file that contains aggregate-level variables for 88 foreign-born groups by national origin between 1980 and 1990. They regressed immigrant characteristics and immigration volume upon time-lagged import/export statistics from the same 88 nations between 1985 and 1995. Results show the in…
Evangelizing White Americans: Sacrifice, Race, and a Korean Mission Movement in America
This paper examines the phenomena of non-western missionaries evangelizing in the West through a case study of a Korean mission movement in the United States. It discusses how Korean missionaries of color were able to evangelize white Americans in the late 1970s and have had some success in crossracial evangelism. It argues that Korean missionaries practiced a theology of sacrifice to evangelize white Americans. They practically embraced sufferin…
Estranged Pioneers: The Case of African American and Asian American Multiracial Church Pastors
This article draws upon 121 in-depth interviews from the Religious Leadership and Diversity Project (RLDP)-a nationwide study of leadership of multiracial religious organizations in the United States-to examine what it means for African American and Asian American pastors to head multiracial churches. We argue that African American and Asian American pastors of multiracial churches are estranged pioneers. They have to leave the familiar to explor…
Sociology (6 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works)