[KS] Book Publication Announcement: Migrant Conversions: Transforming Connections Between Peru and South Korea

[Erica Vogel]

Hello everyone,

(Apologies for cross posting)

I am pleased to announce the recent publication of my book from the UC
Press: *Migrant Conversions: Transforming Connections Between Peru and
South Korea*

It's based on 24 months of fieldwork in South Korea and Peru between 2006
and 2016. It is available for purchase and as a FREE open-access e-book. I
think it would be great for courses such as Intro to Anthropology, as well
as courses on migration and globalization, Korean studies and religion
classes.

UC Press site: https://www.ucpress.edu/b…/9780520341173/migrant-conversions
<https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520341173/migrant-conversions?fbclid=IwAR2huxJzdo6-m2vEB7IwQDqQD0XK-vxcmtmNmnO4rhueuEoijSEUpwA3G7Y>

To access the E-book, go to Amazon for the free Kindle download, or the
Luminos site: https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.86/
<https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.86/?fbclid=IwAR2_SoecNFqdSXS035Z1HrIR5ZaJATjXgi4qM4lEMgYlr9GL2barK_-MeK0>

I taught it last semester and am happy to share the *teaching materials* I
developed specifically for online instruction (lectures, reading questions,
discussion board prompts, exam questions etc.) Send me an email if you'd
like any of those materials (evogel at saddleback.edu)

*Description*: Peruvian migrant workers began arriving in South Korea in
large numbers in the mid 1990s, eventually becoming one of the largest
groups of non-Asians in the country. Migrant Conversions shows how despite
facing unstable income and legal exclusion, migrants come to see Korea as
an ideal destination. Some even see it as part of their divine destiny.
Faced with looming departures, Peruvians develop cosmopolitan plans to
transform themselves from economic migrants into pastors, lovers, and
leaders. Set against the backdrop of 2008’s global financial crisis, Vogel
explores the intersections of three types of conversions— money, religious
beliefs and cosmopolitan plans—to argue that conversions are how migrants
negotiate the meaning of their lives in a constantly changing transnational
context. At the convergence of cosmopolitan projects spearheaded by the
state, churches, and other migrants, Peruvians change the value and meaning
of their migrations. Yet, in attempting to make themselves at home in the
world and give their families more opportunities, they also create
potential losses. As Peruvians help carve out social spaces, they create
complex and uneven connections between Peru and Korea that challenge a
global hierarchy of nations and migrants. Exploring how migrants, churches
and nations change through processes of conversion reveals how
globalization continues to impact people’s lives and ideas about their
futures and pasts long after they have stopped moving, or that particular
global moment has come to an end.


Thank you!

Erica Vogel


Associate Professor of Anthropology
Saddleback College
Mission Viejo, CA
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