essay
Some aspects of social demography of Korean Americans
Korean diaspora : historical and sociological studies of Korean immigration and assimilation in North America • Santa Barbara, Calif. • Published In 1977 • Pages: 109-126
By: Kim, Hyung-chan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents an historical survey of the immigration of Korean people to the United States between the years 1901-1971. For his demographic analysis of the immigrant population, Kim, using data from the 1970 United States census, describes age and sex composition, place of residence in the U.S. (including urban/rural concentrations), occupational status at the time of entry, and the number of Koreans who have obtained U.S. citizenship in proportion to the total number of immigrants.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- External migration
- Settlement patterns
- Occupational specialization
- Citizenship
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Korean Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1901-1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hyung-chan Kim
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77007080
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Korean Americans