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Book SynopsisTrade Review"South Korea’s Education Exodus provides readers with rich narratives centering on Early Study Abroad (ESA) as a lens through which one can understand not only the inner workings of ESA but its intimate connections with broader structural factors. . . . [A] useful resource in undergraduate courses on modern and contemporary Korea, international education, inter-Asia cultural studies, multiculturalism, and globalization."
-- Hyaeweol Choi * Journal of Asian Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: South Korea’s Education Exodus
Part One | The Lay of the Land
1. Early Study Abroad
2. The Domestication of South Korean Early Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium
Part Two | Navigating Class and the Global
3. Going to School in New Zealand
4. School Choice in the Global Schoolhouse
5. The “Other Half” Goes Abroad: The Perils of Public Schooling in Singapore
Part Three | The Dilemmas of Global Citizenship
6. Going Global in Comfort
7. From FOB to Cool
8. Early Wave Returnees in Seoul
Part Four | Managing Early Study Abroad
9. The Legal and Religious Citizenship of Korean Transnational Mothers
10. “We Are More Racist”: Navigating Race and Racism in (Korean) America
11. Psychosocial Adjustments of South Korean Early Study Abroad Students
Part Five | The Field Speaks
12. Coming to Terms with Our “Asian Invasion”
13. My Life in the States, Alone
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
