twenty – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Koreans in North America: Their Twenty-First Century Experiences

November 15, 2016October 25, 2013 By Pyong Gap Min

Pyong Gap Min, Editor of Koreans in North America, will discuss this new and only anthology of Koreans’ experiences in the U.S. and Canada. Topics covered include Koreans’ immigration and settlement patterns, changes in Korean immigrants’ business patterns, Korean immigrant churches’ social functions, differences between Korean immigrant intact families and geese families, transnational ties, second-generation … Read more

Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century: Oral Histories of 1st to 4th Generation Americans

June 19, 2017October 3, 2008 By Joann Faung Jean Lee

This book is a 21st Century snapshot of Asian Pacific Americans; a tapestry of tales reflecting their lives, experiences, hopes, and dreams. Ultimately the spectrum of values–in education, family, work–form a remarkable mosaic of the Asian American experience, distinct in many ways from that of Asians living in Asia, or as immigrants encountering diaspora elsewhere … Read more