Between the cosmopolitan and the parochial

The immigrant gentrifier in Koreatown, Los Angeles

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3977787
AutoresGeoffrey Deverteuil (0000-0003-3036-9303, Cardiff University, autor correspondente), Geoff Deverteuil (Cardiff University), Ohsoon Yun (0009-0005-3787-7564, Seoul National University Asia Center, Seoul, South Korea), Carolyn Choi (0009-0002-2072-9985, University of Southern California)
Ano2019
Volume20
Fascículo1
Páginas64-86
Data de publicação2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2017.1347955
OpenAlexW2726984406
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas64

This paper questions the currently lopsided relationship between the cosmopolitan and the parochial, in which the former is favored both conceptually and empirically. In response, we propose a relational framework for bringing them into conversation, simultaneously recasting and re-animating longstanding debates via three framing devices – the process of relationality/territoriality, disposition, and spaces of encounter – embedded in and through the subject of the immigrant-gentrifier in Koreatown, Los Angeles, itself a novel category that has hitherto eluded systematic research. We present the results of 25 interviews of Korean immigrant-gentrifiers and 10 key informant interviews. The results constitute a parochial critique that emerges as a series of conflicted paradoxes but also productive tensions: between an ostensibly transnational process compromised by a profoundly homegrown, parochial set of investors and outlooks; between a set of dispositions that seek inner-city diversity and density, yet simultaneously sheltered from its spillover costs; and spaces of encounter marked by a gap between the promise of truly open spaces and the reality of guarded and self-segregated ones. Ultimately, this paper does double duty – conceptually rebalancing the cosmopolitan-parochial relationship, but in doing so empirically elevating the emergence of the understudied immigrant-gentrifier category

Conversation · Cosmopolitanism · Duty · Framing (construction · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy