Actions for Migrant Conversions [electronic resource] : Transforming Connections between Peru and South Korea

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Migrant Conversions [electronic resource] : Transforming Connections between Peru and South Korea / Erica Vogel

Author
Vogel, Erica
Published
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Physical Description
1 online resource (188 p.)
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Series
Language Note
In English.
Restrictions on Access
License restrictions may limit access.
Contents
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructing "The End" -- 1. Peru, South Korea, Peru . . . -- 2. Monetary Conversion -- 3. Religious Conversion -- 4. Cosmopolitan Conversion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Peruvian migrant workers began arriving in South Korea in large numbers in the mid 1990s, eventually becoming one of the largest groups of non-Asians in the country. Migrant Conversions shows how despite facing unstable income and legal exclusion, migrants come to see Korea as an ideal destination. Some even see it as part of their divine destiny. Faced with looming departures, Peruvians develop cosmopolitan plans to transform themselves from economic migrants into pastors, lovers, and leaders. Set against the backdrop of 2008's global financial crisis, Vogel explores the intersections of three types of conversions- money, religious beliefs and cosmopolitan plans-to argue that conversions are how migrants negotiate the meaning of their lives in a constantly changing transnational context. At the convergence of cosmopolitan projects spearheaded by the state, churches, and other migrants, Peruvians change the value and meaning of their migrations. Yet, in attempting to make themselves at home in the world and give their families more opportunities, they also create potential losses. As Peruvians help carve out social spaces, they create complex and uneven connections between Peru and Korea that challenge a global hierarchy of nations and migrants. Exploring how migrants, churches and nations change through processes of conversion reveals how globalization continues to impact people's lives and ideas about their futures and pasts long after they have stopped moving, or that particular global moment has come to an end.
Subject(s)
Genre(s)
ISBN
9780520974579
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Part Of
Title is part of eBook package
De Gruyter
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
9783110704716
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020
9783110704518
ZDB-23-DGG
EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2020 English
9783110704723
EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology, Education, Psychology 2020
9783110704549
ZDB-23-SEW
University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
9783110690415
Technical Details
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Terms of Use and Reproduction
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
View MARC record | catkey: 35518505