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Institution(Position)

Deptartment of City Planning,

Seoul National University

(Associate Professor)

Center for Asian Migration Studies,

Seoul National University

(Director)

Research Field

Migration and Multicultural Spaces,

Gender,

Urban Studies

Main Publication

• Jung, H., 2025, Constructing K-multicultural space from below: A case of Little Manila and Korean catholic church, in Lee, S. & Yoo, Y., eds., Reimagining Korea: Identity and Values in a Changing World and Korea in Transition, Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming in July.

• Jang, J & Jung, H., 2025, Making homes survival places: the experience and practices in fear of crime of young women living alone in Seoul, Gender, Place and Culture, 32(4), 588-611.

• Yang, S. & Jung, H., 2024, The Impact of educational migration in the transition to a modern city: focusing on Bukchon as the locus of educational migration to Gyeongseong, Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, 37(1), 53-80.

E-mail

jung0072@snu.ac.kr

Institution

Asia Center

(Seoul National University)

Position

HK Research Professor

Research Field

Social welfare

Gender

Disparity (health, geography, race)

Data visualization and storytelling

Main Publication

• Jungwon Huh. 2023. The Korean Efforts to Virtual Solidarity toward Myanmar Democratization: An Analysis of Social Media. Multiculture & Peace, 17(3), 237-257.

• Jungwon Huh & Juyoung Jang. 2024. Perceived Immigrant Threats and Multicultural Acceptance: Concrete and Abstract Perceptions. Space & Environment, 34(3), 8-33.

• Jungwon Huh & Abhisheka Dubey. 2021. COVID-19 vaccination campaign trends and challenges in select Asian countries. Asian Journal of Political Science, 29(3).

E-mail

jwhuh@snu.ac.kr

Institution

Asia Center

(Seoul National University)

Position

Assistant Professor

Research Field

Anthropology,

West Asian Studies,

Muslim Migration issue

Main Publication

• "Riding the Korean wave in Iran: Cyberfeminism and pop culture among young Iranian women." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 16.2 (2020): 144-164.

• "The Choice for the “Zendegie Normal (Normal Life)”: Changes Among Iranian Young Immigrants." Social change in the Gulf region: Multidisciplinary perspectives. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. 249-267.

• The Dilemma Between ‘Settlement’ and ‘Onward Migration’: Cultural Adaptation and Transnational Mobility Strategies among Iranian International Female Students in South Korea,  Space and Environment , 2024 vol.34, no.3, pp.34 - 75

E-mail

kikiki9@snu.ac.kr

Institution

Deptartment of Geography

(Seoul National University)

Position

Professor

Research Field

Political geography

migrant studies

Main Publication

• Shin, HaeRan. 2025 (forthcoming in June). Contested Placemaking in South Korea- Power, Knowledge, and Strategy in Hierarchical Goverance. Palgrave Macmillan.

• Shin, HaeRan and Cassandra Gutierrez. 2024. Migrant placemaking as a response to governing through mobility-making: An ethnic enclave and a digital community in South Korea. Asia Pacific Viewpoint.

• Shin, HaeRan. 2024. North Korean Female Entrepreneurs in South Korea: Empowerment through Informality and Resilience in Post-Cold War Geopolitics. Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, 12(1), 1-23.

E-mail

haeranshin@snu.ac.kr

Institution

Department of Geography Education

(Kyungpook National University)

Position

Assistant Professor

Research Field

Migration

Mobility

Gender and Space

International Students

Migration Infrastructure

Main Publication

• Koh, M. & Malecki, E. (2016) The emergence of ethnic entrepreneurs in Seoul, South Korea: globalisation from below, Geographical Journal, 182(1): 59-69.

• Koh, M. (2022) A Critical Review of International Student Research, Journal of The Korean Association of Regional Geographers, 28(4): 474-488. (in Korean)

• Koh, M. & Kwak, Y. (2023) The Precariatization of Asian Students Working as Irregular Workers through Migration Infrastructure in South Korea, Journal of the Korean Urban Geographical Society, 26(1): 1-15. (in Korean)

E-mail

koh.geo54@knu.ac.kr

Institution

Department of Sociology

(Kyungpook National University)

Position

Associate Professor

Research Field

Migration and Citizenship,

Racism and Islamophobia,

Cultural Politics of Race, Gender, and Class

 Diversity and Cultural Policy Development

Main Publication

• Yuk, J. and Shin, H. (2024) Refugees as Perceived Threat: College Students’ Attitudes towards Refugees in South Korea. International Migration, 62(2): 182–198. 

• Yuk, J. (2023) Contemporary Bordering and Conflict Intensification in Multicultural Korea: The Politics of Belonging around the Daegu Daruleeman Islamic Mosque conflict. Economy & Society, 139: 52-91.

• Yuk, J. (2018) Exploring the Transnational Mobility and Work Experience of Young Koreans in Singapore. The Southeast Asian Review, 28(3): 111-158. 

E-mail

joowon.yuk@knu.ac.kr

Institution

Department of Political Science

(Johns Hopkins University)

Position

Professor

Research Field

East Asian political economy,

migration and citizenship,

comparative racial politics

Main Publication

• Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

• Immigration and Citizenship in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

E-mail

echung@jhu.edu

Institution

Department of Sociology

(National Taiwan University)

Position

Distinguished Professor

Research Field

migration, gender, and family

Main Publication

• Lan PC (2025): Negotiating ambivalent identities in geopolitical contexts: second-generation youth of Chinese immigrant mothers in Taiwan, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(6): 1200-1217.

• Lan, PC (2025).  “Reproducing Multicultural Citizens: Citizenship Pathways of Southeast Asian Immigrant Mothers in Taiwan.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, special issue on Migration and Citizenship Pathway, edited by Elaine Ho, Rhacel Parrenas and Brenda Yeoh.

• Lan PC (2024) “Contesting Boundaries and Navigating Identities: Second-Generation Adult Children from Cross-border Marriages in Taiwan" International Migration Review.

E-mail

pclan@ntu.edu.tw

Institution

Department of Sociology

(National Taiwan University)

Position

Professor

Research Field

international migration,

immigration policies

Main Publication

• Lake Lui and Yen-Fen Tseng. (accepted) "After the Revolution of Our Times: Geopolitics and The Changing Social Imaginaries of Hong Kong Immigrants in Taiwan", Journal of Contemporary Asia.

• Yen-Fen Tseng. (2022). “Settlement Intentions among Taiwanese Skilled Migrants in Tokyo and Hong Kong,” Asian Population Studies, Volume 18, Issue 2: 113-128.

• Tseng, Yen-Fen (2021). “Becoming Global Talent? Taiwanese White-Collar Migrants in Japan.” Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, 47(10): 2288-2304.

E-mail

yftseng@ntu.edu.tw

Institution

Department of Geography

(National Taiwan University)

Position

Professor

Research Field

cultural geography,

cultural studies,

migration studies 

Main Publication

• Ip, Penn Tsz-Ting, Huang, Tsung-yi, & Wang, Jing (2023). Gendering grassrootscapes: The sociospatial relations of lower working-class women dwelling in the socialist Workers’ New Villages in post-reform Shanghai. Journal of Urban Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2247502 (SSCI) (Corresponding author)

• Huang, Tsung-yi, & Huang, Chia-yuan (2023). “Why would you marry a place even more Mainland than the Mainland?” Gendered geopolitics and Taiwan–Hong Kong cross-border marriages. Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 124, 51–96. (in Chinese)

• Huang, Tsung-yi, & Woo, Chun-kai (2022). Becoming a strong mother against all odds: Motherhood practices of Taiwanese marriage migrants in South Korea. Journal of Geographical Science, 103, 3–35. (in Chinese)

E-mail

zongyihuang@ntu.edu.tw

Institution

Asian Migration Cluster

at Asia Research Institute (ARI)

(National University of Singapore)

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Field

Labor Migration Regimes in Asia

Migrant Worker Subjectivities 

Main Publication

• Dinkelaker, Samia. 2024. “Striving for Control over Migrant Labour and Lives: Indonesian Factory Workers in Taiwan.” Work in the Global Economy 4(1), 52-69 and forthcoming publications on her research on Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan.

E-mail

samdink@nus.edu.sg

Institution

Asian Migration Cluster

at Asia Research Institute (ARI)

(National University of Singapore)

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Field

Gender

Family

Labour Migration

Globalization

Main Publication

• Yang, W., Yang, P., & Chow, L. T. (2025). Transnational class anxieties and intensive parenting: middle-class Chinese immigrant parents ‘doing security’ in Singapore. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19.

• Yang, W. (2025). From “disposable labour” to “desirable citizen”: Chinese migrant worker-turned-marriage migrants negotiating citizenship pathways in Singapore. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1-18.

• Yang, W. (2022). Time, (im)mobility and social reproduction: self-development of Chinese migrant women workers in Singapore. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50 (8): 1959-1976.

• Yang, W. (2021). “Temporary couples” among Chinese migrant workers in Singapore. Pacific Affairs 94 (2): 285-305.

E-mail

weiyang@nus.edu.sg

Institution

University College Cork

Position

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Field

Gender and mobilities

East Asian migration

Main Publication

• Meiyun, M. (2023). Cheers and tears: Life stories of highly educated women in Shenzhen. Made in China Journal, 8(1), 48-53.

• Meiyun, M. (2025). Rocking Boundaries: Made-in-China Feminism and an All-Female Chinese Band in Tokyo. Made in China Journal  (forthcoming, print publication June 2025; online version available)

E-mail

MMeng@ucc.ie

Institution(Position)

Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies

Waseda University

(Professor)

Institute of Asian Migrations

Waseda University 

(Director)

Research Field

Sociology, International Migration

Main Publication

• Fresnoza-Flot, A. and Liu-Farrer, G. eds., 2022. Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration (Vol. 12). Berghahn Books.

• Liu-Farrer, G. Social Construction of Skill in International Migration: Perspectives from Asia. Annual Review of Sociology, 51.

• Liu-Farrer, G., Pearlman, W. and Al-Masri, M., 2024. Neoliberal humanitarianism: Contradictory policy logics and Syrian refugee experiences in Japan. Migration Studies, p.mnae007.

E-mail

glfarrer@waseda.jp