• Date: November 25th – 26th, Friday – Saturday, 2022
• Location: Youngone Hall (Room 210) & Room 230, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

November 25

10:00 – 10:30
Opening Ceremony (Youngone Hall)
Chae, Suhong (Seoul National Univ.)

10:30 – 12:00
Keynote Speech (Youngone Hall)

Janet Hoskins (Univ. of Southern California)
Refugees and Pilgrims: Transnational Circuits of Religious Travel

12:00 –13:00
Lunch (Sarasha and Gamgol)

13:00 –14:00
Graduate Students Poster Session

14:00 – 15:30
Session 1 Impact of Labor Policies on Migrant Workers (Youngone Hall with Zoom)
Moderator: Kang, Yoonhee (Seoul National Univ.)
Discussant: Seo, Bo Kyeong (Yonsei Univ.)

Seol, Dong-Hoon (Jeonbuk National Univ.)
Foreign Labor Policy in South Korea 1987-2022: Appraisal of the Employment Permit Program for Foreigners

June Hee, Kwon (Sacramento State Univ.)
Neither Refugees nor Workers: Permanent Temporariness Under the Humanitarian Resident Permit (G-1 Visa) in South Korea

Nguyen Nu Nguyet Anh (Univ. of Social Sciences and Humanities)
Impact of the host countries’ policies on temporary foreign workers on migration strategies of Vietnamese migrant workers

15:30 – 16:00
Break

16:00 – 18:00
Session 2 Migrant Workers’ Trajectories and Gendered Strategies (Youngone Hall)
Moderator: Park, Hanson (Seoul National Univ.)
Discussant: Kim, Hyun Hee (Yonsei Univ.)

Kim, Hyun Mee (Yonsei Univ.)
Gendered Instability and the Labor-Life Course of Vietnamese Migrant Women

Lim, Anna (Kangwon National Univ.)
Networked Mobility in the Developing Migration Trajectory: Transnational Labor Migration of Filipino Caregivers to Israel

Siu Kaxton Yu-Kwan (Hong Kong Baptist Univ.)
Vietnamese Migrant Women in Japan and South Korea: Gendered Mechanisms Underpinning Labour and Marriage Migration in Asia

Hayeon Lee (Columbia Univ.)
Thuy’s marriage migration story

16:00 – 18:00
Session 3 Immigrant Workers’ Settlement and Cultural Politics (Room 230 with Zoom)

Moderator: Olga Fedorenko (Seoul National Univ.)
Discussant: Hanseo, Seunghee (Institute of Gender and Culture)

Kim, Kyunghak (Chonnam National Univ.)
Remittances of Nepalese Female Migrant Workers in Korea and Changes of Gender Relations among Transnational Families

Etsuko Kato (International Christian University)
Not Quite Labor Migration Though They “Work”: Japanese Global Self-Searching Migrant sand Asianisms

Huh, Jungwon (Seoul National Univ.)
Cultural Diversity and Collective Efficacy: The Evidence from Civic Engagement in Ethnic Enclaves in Seoul

Yu, Seungwoo (Seoul National Univ.)
Reproduction of Transnational Life through Consumption and Leisure of Male Migrant Workers: The Igorot People of the Philippines at the Industrial Complex A in Gyeonggi-do

18:00 – 18:30
Closing Ceremony (Youngone Hall)

18:00 – 20:00
Dinner

November 26

10:00 –12:00
Session 4 Globalization, Trans-Nationality and Regional Identities (Youngone Hall)
Moderator: Kim Jaesok (Seoul National Univ.)
Discussant: Park, Jeehwan (Seoul National Univ.)

Chae, Suhong (Seoul National Univ.)
Post-Socialist Vietnam’s Industrialization, Migrant Work, and Identity Politics

Yoon, Jongseok (Univ. of Seoul)
Asianization of Korea-based MNCs and the Role of Human Mobilities Reconsidered: Koreanization, Asianization, and Globalization

Koo, Gi Yeon (Seoul National Univ.)
“I Make My Own Life!”: Iranian Female Students’ Journeys of Self-Discovery in Korea

Park, Kyungmin (Seoul National Univ.)
“Always Sweet and Bright Foreign Caring Talents”: Changes in the Representation of Ethnicity, Gender and Labor in Japanese Foreign Workers Policy

10:00 –12:00
Session 5 Global Students’ Korean Studies (Room 230)

Moderator: Lee, Seung Cheol (Seoul National Univ.)
Discussant: Hwang, Heesun (Seoul National Univ.)

Lee, Eunjeong (Seoul National Univ.)
Transnational Economic practice of Students from Myanmar in Korea after covid-19 and the Coup

Joo, Dokyung (Seoul National Univ.)
Traditionality, Hybridity, and Creativity of Korean Chinese Folklore (Dance)

Vittoria Sottini (LSE)
Keeping the dream alive: Explaining Mongolian women’s migration to South Korea

Takeda Hibiki (Kyoto University)
The Mobility and Memory of People in Japan and the Korean Peninsula: Relationship between ZAINICHI Koreans and their relatives living in “Kohyang” and “Choguk”

12:00 – 12:30
Closing Ceremony (Youngone Hall)

12:30 – 13:30
Lunch (Sarasha)