New Urban Immigrants: The Korean Community in New York
Illsoo Kim
Princeton University Press
Italians, Russians, Jews, Poles, and the Irish—most of whom, except<br>for Jews, were of peasant origin and provided a huge labor force for<br>the rapid industrialization of America at the turn of the century—<br>were viewed as being "uprooted," in Handlin's term, as they shifted<br>from gemeinschaft (folk and rural life in their homeland) to gesell-<br>schaft and the urban society of the new land. In being "uprooted" and<br>in the processes of acculturation, they experienced vast social disor-<br>ganization, family dislocation, anomie, and other types of pathology.<br>This was observed particularly by Chicago sociologists, whose familiar<br>concepts such as "social disorganization," "social control," "marginal-<br>ity," and "natural areas" were evolved during the rapid urbanization<br>of Chicago at the turn of the century.