Abstract: Ethnicity is commodified in the process of economic transition involved in immigration: Immigrants sell their labor power for economic survival. While a spatially enclosed ethnic community channels the traditional kind of mutual cooperation into the growth of the "ethnic capital," a common ethnicity of the Korean community, based on shared language and other cultural background, is appropriated as a product to sell, a reliable source for workers, and an object of consumption. To examine this proposition, the author analyzes Korean small busines...
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Demographic economics