Is Acculturation Always Adverse to Korean Immigrant Health in the United States?

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaelin Karen Ra ◽  
Youngtae Cho ◽  
Robert A. Hummer
2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110179
Author(s):  
Sei-Young Lee ◽  
Ga-Young Choi

With the theory of feminist intersectionality, this study examined intimate partner violence (IPV) among Korean immigrant women focusing on gender norms, immigration, and socioeconomic status in the contexts of Korean culture. A total of 83 Korean immigrant women who were receiving a social service from non-profit agencies in ethnically diverse urban areas were recruited with a purposive sampling method. Hierarchical regressions were conducted to examine changes in variance explained by models. Having non-traditional gender norms, a college degree or higher education, immigrant life stresses, and living longer in the United States were positively associated with IPV while having higher income and being more fluent in English were negatively associated with IPV. Findings were discussed to understand Korean immigrant women’s internal conflict affected by their higher education and more egalitarian gender norms under the patriarchal cultural norms while experiencing immigrant life stresses and living in the United States. Implication for practice was also discussed.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonghyun Lee ◽  
Anna Martin-Jearld ◽  
Kate Robinson ◽  
Susan Price

Author(s):  
Christina H. Moon

Fast fashion is often a story about the most powerful global retail giants such as Zara and H&M. The rise and dominance of fast fashion within the United States, however, areintimately tied to the work of Korean immigrant communities within downtown Los Angeles. In the last decade alone, Koreans have refashioned the city of Los Angeles into the central hub of fast fashion in the Americas, designing and distributing clothing from Asia to the largest fast-fashion retailers throughout the Americas. This chapter explores the work of these fast-fashion families who blur the lines between design and copy, author and imitator, exploiter and exploited. How do their modes of work profoundly transform the material object of clothing? How do they complicate the assumed directions and global flows of design and production in the global fashion industry? And finally, what role does risk and failure play—in a landscape of creativity, aspiration, and imagining—to make fast fashion even a possibility?


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1771-1779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian J. Shen ◽  
Charissa S. L. Cheah ◽  
Christy Y. Y. Leung

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 611-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Hall ◽  
Norma Graciela Cuellar

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joo Young Hong

This paper presents the perception and associated experiences of a Korean hard-of-hearing immigrant special education researcher as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded. These experiences include the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans; increasing evidence that face coverings are a vital public health tool; the knowledge that face coverings can increase the risk of racist violence; and difficulty communicating with people who are wearing most face coverings due to being hard-of-hearing. It provides supportive resources, strategies, and hope for educators, disability rights advocates, and families of individuals who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing, promoting public awareness and embrace of difference.


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