Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs / Edition 1

Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs / Edition 1

by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
ISBN-10:
0804752486
ISBN-13:
9780804752480
Pub. Date:
08/22/2005
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10:
0804752486
ISBN-13:
9780804752480
Pub. Date:
08/22/2005
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs / Edition 1

Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs / Edition 1

by Lisa Sun-Hee Park

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Overview

Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship as Americans through conspicuous consumption.

The American immigrant entrepreneur has played a central role in projecting the American ideology of meritocracy and equality. The children of these immigrants are seen as evidence of an open society. While it appears that these children have readily adapted to American culture, questions remain as to why second-generation Asian Americans feel compelled to convince others of their legitimacy and the way they go about asserting their citizenship status.

Extending our understanding of such children beyond the traditional emphasis on assimilation, the author argues that their consumptive behavior is a significant expression of their paradoxical position as citizens who straddle the boundaries of social inclusion and exclusion.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804752480
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 08/22/2005
Series: Asian America
Edition description: 1
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lisa Sun-Hee Park is Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department and the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of California, San Diego. She is co-author of The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-tech Global Economy (2002).
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