South Korea's Education Exodus

Adrienne Lo is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Nancy Abelmann is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages and Cultures and an associate vice chancellor of research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Soo Ah Kwon is associate professor of Asian American studies and human and community development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sumie Okazaki is professor of applied psychology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: South Korea’s Education ExodusPart One | The Lay of the Land1. Early Study Abroad2. The Domestication of South Korean Early Study Abroad in the First Decade of the MillenniumPart Two | Navigating Class and the Global3. Going to School in New Zealand4. School Choice in the Global Schoolhouse5. The “Other Half” Goes Abroad: The Perils of Public Schooling in SingaporePart Three | The Dilemmas of Global Citizenship6. Going Global in Comfort7. From FOB to Cool8. Early Wave Returnees in SeoulPart Four | Managing Early Study Abroad9. The Legal and Religious Citizenship of Korean Transnational Mothers10. “We Are More Racist”: Navigating Race and Racism in (Korean) America11. Psychosocial Adjustments of South Korean Early Study Abroad StudentsPart Five | The Field Speaks12. Coming to Terms with Our “Asian Invasion”13. My Life in the States, Alone BibliographyContributorsIndex

"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."