Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is based on 31 months of fieldwork conducted in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan from 2009 to 2016. This book examines how the civic legacies of past struggles for democracy shape current movements for immigrant rights. Examining three industrial democracies in Northeast Asia with overlapping immigration and citizenship policies, immigrant populations, and immigration histories, this book offers insights into the gaps between state policies and immigrant political behavior across similarly situated countries. In addition to comparing policy reforms, state-institutionalized rights for migrants, and immigrant incorporation policies, programs, and services, this project seeks to better understand the process of political incorporation through the lens of migrants themselves. In order to understand the incentives and disincentives for particular forms of political engagement as well as immigrant strategies for political empowerment, the methods employed must allow the respondents to generate their own questions, concepts, and categorizations. In addition to Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese government publications and archival materials, the project relies on a combination of questionnaires, over 150 in-depth interviews with immigrants, pro-immigrant activists, and government officials, and 28 focus groups with immigrant communities in the three countries. The Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies (IIEAD) Project contains the focus group data associated with this book. In Japan, the focus groups consisted of migrants from the Korean peninsula, mainland China, the Philippines, Brazil, Peru, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia; in Korea, participants were nationals of mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Mongolia, and Myanmar; and, in Taiwan, participants consisted of migrants from Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The IIEAD collection contains transcripts and English translations of 16 focus groups from the study: eight conducted in Japan and eight in South Korea. The focus group transcripts from Taiwan are not included in the IIEAD collection due to their sensitive nature. In order to ensure the confidentiality of the focus group participants, all personal identifiers have been removed from the transcripts in the IIEAD collection, including participants’ names, self-introductions at the beginning of the focus groups, and informal conversations that either contained personal information or that were between participants and not meant to be directed at the group. This study collection includes the South Korea focus group data. (2020-10)