Jaok Kwon is a sociologist and her research interests include the sociology of development, labor, gender, and transnational labor migration. Previously, she worked as a research fellow at the Max-Weber-Institute for Sociology at Heidelberg University. She also conducted postdoctoral research at Tohoku University and Hitotsubashi University in Japan after obtaining her PhD in sociology from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. Her work on socioeconomic issues in East Asia has been published in various journals, including Gender Studies, Labor History, International Journal of Japanese Sociology, and Korea Observer.
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