Ronyoung Kim deplores that "A whole generation of Korean immigrants and their American-born children could have lived and died in the United States without [others'] knowing they had been here," and says that "I could not let that happen" (Solberg 23). To that end, in 1987 she wrote Clay Walls in wh...

The phenomenon of the 'New Poor' is an issue that many industrialized countries are now facing. The new world economy, driven by advanced technology and a global flow of finance and information, has had a drastic impact on social order (Goode and Maskovsky 4). There is an increasing econ...