Changes and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant Families in New York

by Pyong Gap Min, Nancy Foner

A massive wave of immigration is sweeping across America. How do new immigrants, specifically Koreans in New York, assimilate? This book fills the gap of knowledge and answers this thought-provoking question. This book studies Korean immigrants in New York and how they have maintained traditional family values since coming to the US and the ways in which these values have changed. The increased economic role in women is discussed in-depth, as well as how this new role has affected marital relations, the socialization of children, and family ties. Sociologists and anthropologists. Part of the New Immigrants Series .

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 13, 1997

Reviews

[Colleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Changes and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant Families in New York by Pyong Gap Min is one of the books I had to read for my Anthropology of Migration class this past semester. It is one of the books in the New Immigrant Series, and while we only had two of the books in the series assigned for class, I would definitely pick up any others I might come across, because they were both great books. ...

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