Paving the Silk Road: Rethinking Ethnic Solidarity in Los Angeles' Korean Garment District

Angie Y. Chung & Sookhee Oh — 2018-06-19T05:00:00Z

In this piece on Koreans in Los Angeles' garment industry, sociologists Angie Chung and Sookhee Oh discuss the external factors that influence ethnic solidarity. In doing so, they treat as fluid and changing a category often taken for granted as stable and fixed.
In April 2017, the news broke that Forever 21, a fast-growing clothing retailer, was under federal investigation for using factory sweatshops to manufacture its trendy clothing lines. The company is owned by one of the most

- From the Field / Los Angeles, Koreatown, social networks, ethnic solidarity, Los Angeles Fashion District, clothing manufacture, textile industry, apparel industry

Immigrant Growth Machines: Metropolitan Reinvention in Los Angeles

Melody Chiong & Jan Lin — 2016-02-09T06:00:00Z

Building on Logan and Molotch's highly influential concept of the urban “growth machine,” Jan Lin and Melody Chiong propose the idea of the “immigrant growth machine” to describe the variegated forms of investment and development in Los Angeles. Fueled by transnational capital flows and tourism, these new conglomerations reveal the role of immigration and foreign investment in the growth of today's metropolis.
Korean and Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs, investors and political leaders are

- Essays / urban development, Los Angeles, growth machine, diaspora, Chinese diaspora, Korean Diaspora, Chinatown, Koreatown, smart growth

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Paving the Silk Road: Rethinking Ethnic Solidarity in Los Angeles' Korean Garment District

Immigrant Growth Machines: Metropolitan Reinvention in Los Angeles