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Migrant Youth Identity Work in Transnational New Mediascape: A Case Study of What It Means to Be Korean for Migrant Adolescents

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Migrant Youth Identity Work in Transnational New Mediascape: A Case Study of What It Means to Be Korean for Migrant Adolescents
Abstract/Description
This paper argues that transnational new media space is an important developmental context for migrant youth who have multiple social networks across geographical and cultural locations. Informed by the ecological model of development and literacy studies, this paper examines Korean migrant adolescents’ sense of self and belonging in relation to the three intertwined identity categories – nationality, race, and ethnicity; and the role of new media in youth’s identity negotiation and representation. Using an ethnographic case study design, this paper analyzes adolescents’ identity work reflected in their verbal interviews and multimodal new media literacy practices. Findings suggest that despite the complexity of youths’ identity as seen in their shifting meaning of being Korean across national, ethno-cultural, and racial contexts, youths actively reconstructed and shared a fuller range of their identity constructs drawing on the resources and linguistic tools in transnational new media.
Author/creator
Kim, Sujin
Date
2018
In publication
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
Volume
28
Issue
2
Pages
281-302
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
0957-6851, 1569-9838
DOI
10.1075/japc.00013.kim
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (John Benjamins e-Platform)
Citation
Kim, S. (2018). Migrant Youth Identity Work in Transnational New Mediascape: A Case Study of What It Means to Be Korean for Migrant Adolescents. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 28(2), 281–302. https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00013.kim
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Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research
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OB Citations - Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research

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