dc.contributor.advisor | Neitz, Mary Jo, 1951- | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Han, Daehoon | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2011 Spring | eng |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 25, 2012). | eng |
dc.description | The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Dissertation advisor: Dr. Mary Jo Neitz | eng |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.description | Vita. | eng |
dc.description | Ph. D. University of Missouri--Columbia 2011. | eng |
dc.description | "May 2011" | eng |
dc.description.abstract | [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Literature on contemporary immigrants suggest that increasing volume of transnational practices foster agency construction across borders, thereby disjoining geographical space and social space in which identities are constructed and negotiated. Unlike the majority of previous studies, this study examines the agency dynamics among less mobile immigrants who develop their agency by creating and negotiating boundaries through the practices of identity management in the wave of transnationalism that occurs in an immigrant church. Based on focus group interview with fifteen Korean military brides, participant observation, and survey with the congregation of a Mid-Western Korean immigrant church, the study reveals that through a new social space, Korean military brides not only created more exclusive, closed, and homogeneous community within a Korean community, but their community becomes broader with comprehensive "imagined communities." This study also indicates that their efforts to create an own boundary comes with the change in their identity management from "commuter" to "integrator" in which their identities become more flexible and multi-layered, and it suggests that this effort is the part their gradual adaptation as well as resistance to assimilation to the wave of transnationalism. | eng |
dc.format.extent | ix, 456 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.oclc | 872562421 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/15849 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/15849 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.rights | Access is limited to the campus of the University of Missouri--Columbia. | eng |
dc.subject | identity management | eng |
dc.subject | collective agency | eng |
dc.subject | symbolic boundary | eng |
dc.subject | immigrant church | eng |
dc.subject | transnationalism | eng |
dc.title | A transnational religious institution and its role on the construction of collective agency : a case of Korean military brides in a Korean immigrant religious institution | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Sociology (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | eng |
thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | eng |