Korean Migrants’ Use of the Internet in Canada

Kyong Yoon ()
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Kyong Yoon: University of British Columbia Okanagan

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2017, vol. 18, issue 2, No 9, 547-562

Abstract: Abstract Drawing on qualitative interviews with South Korean migrants in Canada, this study examines how full-time working migrants appropriate the Internet to maintain sociocultural connections with their homeland, their diasporic community, and the host society. The present study raises the question of how the rapid diffusion of the Internet may redefine the meanings of the Korean diaspora, and it explores how migrants engage in, or negotiate, the digital mediascape of the host society. While Korean migrants in the present study encountered no difficulty with accessing and using the Internet, it was largely appropriated in Korean language and in relation to Korean community rather than serving as a platform through which they could actively engage in the host society’s mediascape. Thus, it is questionable how the ethnic use of the Internet may contribute to the co-construction between migrant and host media users.

Keywords: Ethnic language Internet; Ethnic media; Homeland media; Korean migrants in Canada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s12134-016-0487-8

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