Spatial Assimilation and Ethnic Church Linkages: Suburban Koreans in Bergen County, New Jersey
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This paper examines the spatial assimilation of Korean immigrants without diminishing ethnic ties. It argues that today’s immigrants dispersed around affluent suburban neighborhoods are not socially and culturally assimilated while their social needs are fulfilled by linking themselves to ethnic institutions in the suburb. The foremost ethnic institution that makes this kind of spatial dispersion possible is ethnic churches. This paper focuses on suburban Korean households with varying degrees of spatial dispersion in Bergen County, New Jersey, and their corresponding ethnic church linkages based on both telephone survey data of Korea households and qualitative data from local coethnic and non-coethnic newspapers, participant observation, and personal interviews collected during 2003-2004. The results show spatially dispersed Koreans are associated with stronger ethnic church linkages than are those living in the ethnic concentration. This finding suggests that ethnic churches play a significant role for spatially dispersed but unassimilated immigrants and poses a challenge to the linear spatial assimilation model in which immigrants retain fewer ethnic ties as they disperse from the core enclave.
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This paper examines the spatial assimilation of Korean immigrants without diminishing ethnic ties. It argues that today’s immigrants dispersed around affluent suburban neighborhoods are not socially and culturally assimilated while their social needs are fulfilled by linking themselves to ethnic institutions in the suburb. The foremost ethnic institution that makes this kind of spatial dispersion possible is ethnic churches. This paper focuses on suburban Korean households with varying degrees of spatial dispersion in Bergen County, New Jersey, and their corresponding ethnic church linkages based on both telephone survey data of Korea households and qualitative data from local coethnic and non-coethnic newspapers, participant observation, and personal interviews collected during 2003-2004. The results show spatially dispersed Koreans are associated with stronger ethnic church linkages than are those living in the ethnic concentration. This finding suggests that ethnic churches play a significant role for spatially dispersed but unassimilated immigrants and poses a challenge to the linear spatial assimilation model in which immigrants retain fewer ethnic ties as they disperse from the core enclave.
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