Abstract
This paper seeks to go beyond the received conception that Korean immigration to the US is just East-West coastal phenomena, by examining the lived experiences of Korean military brides and Korean communities in Kansas. It focuses on the dynamic community-building process of KMBs and other Korean immigrants in the Junction City-Fort Riley area. In so doing, the paper aims to illuminate how the Korean community by KMBs had been a part of the larger Junction City and Fort Riley community in Kansas, despite the negative reception and treatment that Korean immigrants, especially KMBs had to endure. It also pays a special attention to the Korean cultural values that KMBs have transmitted to their children and the local community. This paper seeks ultimately to uncover the unrecognized history of Korean migration to Kansas in what appears to be a constructed official history of Korean diaspora in Kansas. More importantly, it hopes to illuminate how to understand the Junction City Korean community is to understand the broader Korean immigrant demographic and settlement patterns now found in the military cities in the Midwest and Southwest.
| Translated title of the contribution | 캔자스 주 정션 시티 한인 이주민 역사 연구: 국제결혼 여성들을 중심으로 |
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| Original language | English |
| Pages (from-to) | 343-375 |
| Number of pages | 33 |
| Journal | 영미연구 |
| Volume | 37 |
| State | Published - Jun 2016 |