Diaspora and Changing Identities: Korean Immigrants Are Not Always from Korea

Pacific News Service

LOS ANGELES -- Korean voices speaking Spanish, Russian or Portuguese in Los Angeles are those of the invisible immigrants who live among the largest Korean population in the United States. Hailing from places like Argentina, Brazil and Uzbekistan, they are a dispersed people within a community that they don't always identify with. This Diaspora has challenged notions of what it is to be Korean since its members all have widely varied experiences. >> continue