From FOB to cool: Transnational migrant students in Toronto and the styling of global linguistic capital  

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Shin, Hyunjung

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sociolinguistics (Full Text) vol. 16 no. 2 (2012), page 184–200.
Topik: Globalization; transnationalism; Canada; South Korea; English; international students
Fulltext: Shin_Hyunjung.pdf (593.41KB)

Isi artikel

Globalization and the rise of ‘Korean cool’ provide middle-class Korean yuhaksaeng (visa students) in Toronto with resources they can mobilize as strategies of distinction. In their construction of themselves as new transnational subjects with hybrid identities that are simultaneously global and Korean, yuhaksaeng deploy re-valued varieties of Korean language and culture as stylistic resources in the globalized new economy. In this process, yuhaksaeng contest their marginal positions as ‘FOBs’ (Fresh-Offthe- Boats) and ‘Nerds’ in dominantWestern racial discourse, and construct themselves as wealthy, modern, and cosmopolitan ‘Cools’ vis-`a-vis long-term immigrants in local Korean diasporic communities as well as Canadians. The stories of yuhaksaeng illustrate how notions of ‘global’ and ‘local’ linguistic resources are transformed under thematerial conditions of globalization and its structures of inequality.

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