Korean Adoptees and the Social Context of Ethnic Exploration

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee; Tuan, Mia

doi:10.1086/522807

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“…There were some differences between our findings and those reported by Shiao and Tuan (2008). For one, EE was occurring much earlier in the life course for children adopted from China.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Ethnic Exploration and Consciousness of Difference: Chinese Adoptees in Early Adolescence

Tessler¹,

Gamache²

2012

Adoption Quarterly

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“…There were some differences between our findings and those reported by Shiao and Tuan (2008). For one, EE was occurring much earlier in the life course for children adopted from China.…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 99%

“…So that we could follow Shiao and Tuan (2008) in focusing on Asian children growing up in America, we excluded 7 additional cases in which the families were living outside of the United States. This left a total of 282 cases available for analysis.…”

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Ethnic Exploration and Consciousness of Difference: Chinese Adoptees in Early Adolescence

Tessler¹,

Gamache²

2012

Adoption Quarterly

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“…This contradictory set of life experiences may undermine ethnic identity development, because conflicting feelings of belonging and rejection can lead adopted individuals to disavow and to not want to explore their ethnicity and heritage (Shiao & Tuan, 2008). Identity foreclosure, in particular, may occur when parents have not made sufficient efforts to help children work through these issues earlier in life (Lee et al, 2006).…”

Section: Ethnic Identity Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Qualitative studies and narrative accounts, for example, suggest that many adopted Korean American adults who were adopted in the 1980s and earlier did not begin their ethnic identity exploration until they left the family home to start college or to enter the workforce (Meier, 1999; Shiao & Tuan, 2008). Other researchers have noted that some adopted Korean American adults identified more strongly as White/Caucasian than as Korean or Asian (Freundlich, & Lieberthal, 2000; Westhues & Cohen, 1998).…”

Section: Ethnic Identity Developmentmentioning

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Comparing the Ethnic Identity and Well-Being of Adopted Korean Americans With Immigrant/U.S.-Born Korean Americans and Korean International Students

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This study compared the ethnic identity and well-being of Korean Americans who were adopted internationally with immigrant/U.S.-born Korean Americans and Korean international students, as well as the relationship between ethnic identity and well-being for each group. One-hundred and seven college students completed measures of ethnic identity and subjective well-being. Immigrant/U.S.-born Korean Americans had higher ethnic identity scores than the other two groups. Immigrant/U.S.-born Korean Americans also had higher positive affect scores than international students. Ethnic identity was positively correlated with positive affect for all three groups (r's = .27 -.34), but was negatively correlated with negative affect for international students (r = −.44). Overall, the results suggest that ethnic identity, although slightly lower than non-adopted peers, is relevant to the well-being of adopted Korean American college students.Since 1953, over 160,000 Korean children have been adopted overseas by families in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Canada with nearly 110,000 Korean children having been adopted by U.S. families (South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2007; refer to http://oaks.korean.net/ for complete statistics). South Korea remains one of the top sending countries to families in the U.S., although the annual rate of international adoption from Korea has decreased over the last two decades.

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“…See, for example, Shiao and Tuan’s 2008 paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with a response rate of 16.3%); Rosenfeld and Thomas’ 2012 paper in the American Sociological Review (with a composite overall response rate of 13%); Marx’s 2011 article in the American Sociological Review (20.6%); Allgood et al’s 2004 paper in The American Economic Review (9%); Bode et al’s 2011 article in the Academy of Management Journal (11.5%); and Goren et al’s 2009 article in the American Journal of Political Science (18.2%). …”

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Race, Self-Selection, and the Job Search Process

Pager

Pedulla²

2015

American Journal of Sociology

105

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While existing research has documented persistent barriers facing African American job seekers, far less research has questioned how job seekers respond to this reality. Do minorities self-select into particular segments of the labor market to avoid discrimination? Such questions have remained unanswered due to the lack of data available on the positions to which job seekers apply. Drawing on two original datasets with application-specific information, we find little evidence that blacks target or avoid particular job types. Rather, blacks cast a wider net in their search than similarly situated whites, including a greater range of occupational categories and characteristics in their pool of job applications. Finally, we show that perceptions of discrimination are associated with increased search breadth, suggesting that broad search among African Americans represents an adaptation to labor market discrimination. Together these findings provide novel evidence on the role of race and self-selection in the job search process.

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Korean Adoptees and the Social Context of Ethnic Exploration

Cited by 64 publications

References 34 publications

Ethnic Exploration and Consciousness of Difference: Chinese Adoptees in Early Adolescence

Ethnic Exploration and Consciousness of Difference: Chinese Adoptees in Early Adolescence

Comparing the Ethnic Identity and Well-Being of Adopted Korean Americans With Immigrant/U.S.-Born Korean Americans and Korean International Students

Race, Self-Selection, and the Job Search Process

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