Migrant Settler desire: Chase Kim, ‘Transpacific Rhizomatic Migration in Kyoung H. Park’s Mina: Settler Desire and Identity Formation in Korean-Latin American Literature in the U.S.’, Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies 13, 2024/25, pp. 12-23 | settler colonial studies blog

Migrant Settler desire: Chase Kim, ‘Transpacific Rhizomatic Migration in Kyoung H. Park’s Mina: Settler Desire and Identity Formation in Korean-Latin American Literature in the U.S.’, Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies 13, 2024/25, pp. 12-23

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Excerpt: In this paper, I have examined Korean-Latin American remigration as it pertains to settler colonial desire and identity formation. Though Asian American Studies rarely considers Asian-Latin American perspectives, and even less Korean-Latin American perspectives, doing so provides insight into the effects of overlapping imperialism in the Latin American context—specifically, how Japanese colonialism continues to affect Korean migrants in Latin American multicultural society.

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