{"id":1567,"date":"2024-01-29T17:53:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T08:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T08:53:04","slug":"gendered-transnational-mobility-and-cosmopolitan-life-who-strives-it-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/2024\/01\/29\/gendered-transnational-mobility-and-cosmopolitan-life-who-strives-it-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendered Transnational Mobility and Cosmopolitan Life: Who Strives It Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colloquium in January 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Juyeon Park (Professor, Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, South Korea)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using interviews with 74 Korean undergraduate students at ten elite U.S. colleges, I explore how intersections of gender and class decide who pursues transnational mobility and cosmopolitan life more successfully.<\/p>\n<p>Men from highly-transnational families tried to exert \u2018agency for becoming\u2019 while mapping out their \u2018choice biographies\u2019, aspiring and expected to be high-achieving and influential worldwide, often thanks to their U.S. citizenship or permanent residency. By contrast, women across class and legal statuses tended to accommodate \u2018normal biographies\u2019, prioritizing their (future) responsibilities as mothers, wives, and daughters.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding class limitations, both women and men from less-transnational families tended to expect to return to Korea upon graduation, feeling culturally and legally limited to utilizing their degrees across national borders.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, across class lines, men were more ambitious and career-oriented than women, implying gender-based constraints among the skilled diaspora. These findings shed light on multiple forms of inequalities among high-achieving Asian student migrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colloquium in January 2024 Juyeon Park (Professor, Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, South Korea) Using interviews with 74 Korean undergraduate students at ten elite U.S. colleges, I explore how intersections of gender and class decide who pursues transnational mobility and cosmopolitan life more successfully. Men from highly-transnational families tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[17,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}