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Korean immigrants in AmericaBook 1983 • Hurh, Won Moo & Kim, Kwang Chung
Korean Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
In this study of Korean immigrants Hurh and Kim suggest that adhesive adaptation, the adoption of certain aspects of the culture of a host society by an immigrant group which do not replace or modify any significant part of the immigrant culture, is ...Assimilation patterns of immigrants in the United StatesBook 1978 • Hurh, Won Moo et al.
Korean Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This study describes and analyzes the differential patterns of cultural and social adjustment among the Korean residents in the area of Chicago, Illinois. The authors examine the general life style changes of the Korean immigrants in terms of such st...The burden of double rolesarticle 1988 • Kim, Kwang Chung & Hurh, Won Moo
Korean Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is a discussion and analysis of the family and employment experiences of Korean immigrant wives in the Los Angeles area of California with a comparison made to similar experiences of their married White and Black women. The authors describe the ...The extended conjugal familybook chapter 1991 • Kim, Kwang Chung & Hurh, Won Moo
Korean Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Kim asserts that the family-kinship system of Korean immigrants is a critically important social unit in their adaptation to life in the United States. This study, which deals with a sample of the Korean American population in the Chicago, Illinois a...