Sun Park: 8 books
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States
Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethnic identities of two distinct cohorts of Korean Americans. Through personal essays, the book explores four influential factors of ethnic identity: retention...
Entitled to Nothing
The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a “public charge,” or a burden upon the State, the author shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt punitive...
Ideals of the Body
Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxiety about the hygiene of modern city dwellers. Amid...
Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea
Contemporary Research and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several distinctive changes in its politics, economy, and technology, which are directly related to the development...
The Slums of Aspen
Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Winner, Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Environment & Technology section of the American Sociological Association
Environmentalism usually calls to mind images of peace and serenity, a oneness with nature, and a shared sense of responsibility. But one town in...
Korean Communication, Media, and Culture
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Korean Communication, Media, and Culture is a bibliography of English-language publications for non-Korean-speaking academics, researchers, and professionals. In addition to the actual annotations of all the major books, book chapters, journal articles, and theses/dissertations, each chapter includes...
The Silicon Valley of Dreams
Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2002
Next to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in the nation and leads the country in the number of temporary workers per capita and in workforce gender...
by Yang Su, Wanquin Jin, Hyung Gyu Park
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
There is great interest in the novel mass-transport properties of graphene-based membrane materials, especially for environmental applications such as wastewater treatment and reuse, gas separation and water desalination.
Graphene-based Membranes for Mass Transport Applications is a comprehensive...