Immigration is one of the most significant changes which can occur in one's lifetime. Immigrants struggle with their foreign environment and renewed crises; they suffer from "uprootedness" and "missed embeddedness" and have difficulty integrating their identity roles. Erikson's psychosocial development theory and Marcia's…

Describes a culture-specific bilingual career awareness program for Chinese and Korean American parents held in neighborhood community settings and employing the use of bilingual role models and bilingual career information materials which served 2,553 parents. (Author/ABL)

The number of Korean migrants in the United States has steadily increased in recent years. Korea has struggled with a new social phenomenon: "exodus Korea." Despite its potential impact on the sending and receiving countries, the issue of the increasing number of Korean migrants has not received much research attention in its impact on…

In May 2006, the summer-reading committee in the author's middle school debated the relevance of "So Far from the Bamboo Grove" by Yoko Kawashima Watkins and decided against using the book as a required summer-reading selection. Therefore, the author was interested in the controversy that erupted a few months later in Dover-Sherborn, a district…

In this article, I narrate a self-reflexive inquiry on the process of becoming an Asian/Korean immigrant woman of color in the US. The purpose is to provide a particular insight and identity site to address the urgent need to examine ways in which the increasing number of postcolonial immigrants of color and US racial minorities engage with each…

This article investigates the identity negotiations of a group of Korean-born Korean American (KBKA) high school students. One of the major tensions that arise from within the Korean American community is who should be considered an "authentic" member. Therefore, in this article I illustrate (a) the way American-born Korean Americans' (ABKAs')…

A youth pastor's prayer was analyzed using techniques of microanalysis to reveal sociocompetencies required of Korean American teenagers in a youth church service. It was found that the markers of context within a service included changes in discourse, prosody, posture, and body movements. The teenagers, who with the youth pastor responded to and…

Examines the effects of psychological separation- individuation on adjustment to college among 170 Korean American students in the contexts of collectivism and individualism. The results showed that the two dimensions of psychological separation-individuation measured by the Psychological Separation Inventory related to the cultural variables…

Focuses on the Korean-immigrant community's cultural conflict within the "1.5" generation, showing that the sociocultural characteristics and psychological experiences of the preadult immigrant (the "1.5" generation) are distinct from those of the first- or second-generation ethnic American. Interviews with 117 Korean Americans…

Presents an ecological approach (defining human problems as resulting from transactions between people and the environment) to social work practice for a minority. Emphasizes the strengths and limitations of the ecological perspective for practice. Focuses on Korean-American children and offers a case example involving a two-year-old boy. (RJM)

The notion that names, identity, and the self are closely related is not a new concept (Dion, 1983). However, little research has approached this subject from a (socio)linguistic perspective (Lieberson, 1984), as early research on names and identity centered on psychological aspects (Busse & Seraydarian, 1979; Ellis & Beechley, 1954; Houston &…

Characteristics of the Korean population in Los Angeles, intergenerational cultural problems, and efforts to promote language maintenance are described. The majority of Koreans in Los Angeles have been in the United States less than 10 years. A high percentage are from middle class and professional backgrounds. The traditional hierarchical family…

Presented data on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean marriages in Los Angeles and Hawaii. Found that the Japanese have the highest rates of outmarriage (one partner not of the specific nationality group) in Los Angeles, and Chinese and Koreans were characterized by high rates of outmarriage in Hawaii. (LLL)

The goal of this research was to uncover the reasons for the unusual success of a small group of Korean-Americans in the American work arena. All had spent their childhood and formative years in Korea under the sole influence of Korean culture, attending the best high schools and colleges. Korean culture tends not to nurture some of the…