Working for Justice 2017
DOI: 10.7591/9780801459054-004
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1. The Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance: Spatializing Justice in an Ethnic “Enclave”

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“…This combination of residential, economic, and service concentrations, all catering to a specific immigrant group, soon earned Koreatown the definition of ethnic enclave. This happened despite the fact that the area was (and still is) inhabited by an extremely heterogeneous and ethnically diverse population, including a majority of Latinos (mostly composed of Mexican and Central American immigrants), as well as South Asian immigrants (mostly from Bangladesh) (Kwon 2010).…”
Section: The Politics Of the Korean Immigrant Community In Lamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This combination of residential, economic, and service concentrations, all catering to a specific immigrant group, soon earned Koreatown the definition of ethnic enclave. This happened despite the fact that the area was (and still is) inhabited by an extremely heterogeneous and ethnically diverse population, including a majority of Latinos (mostly composed of Mexican and Central American immigrants), as well as South Asian immigrants (mostly from Bangladesh) (Kwon 2010).…”
Section: The Politics Of the Korean Immigrant Community In Lamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Even if KIWA did not necessarily emphasise a class-struggle rhetoric in Koreatown, merely mentioning the word 'worker' in Korean (nadoja) was enough for most immigrants to associate KIWA with the militant labour movement in South Korea (Kwon 2010). Despite an early attempt to reach out to large segments of the Korean community -by assisting business owners affected by the civil unrest -the organisation could never really get beyond de facto recognition, let alone receive active support (Chung 2007;Kwon 2010).…”
Section: Kiwa: Building Immigrant Class Politicsmentioning
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