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JSIS A/ANTH 448
Fall 2022
MODERN KOREAN SOCIETY

Week IX:
November 29th and December 1st:
Citizenship, Gender and Migration in 21st Century Korea 

Tuesday: Class, demography, gender and migration in neoliberal Korea
Take Home Final Posted on Canvas

Thursday: Nation, Citizenship Law, and Varieties of Belonging .

Take Home Final Posted on Canvas  

Discussion topic: (summary due)

  • "Intersectionality" is how hierarchies of class, gender, ethnicity, and so forth interesect with each other to structure the positions people find themselves in.
  • How many hierarchies can you identify in South Korea, and how would you go about describing how they interesect?


Reading
:

  • Hae Yeon Choo, Decentering Citizenship, chaps 1-3 .
  • One of the following:
  • Nora Hui-Jung Kim, "Korean Immigration Policy Changes and the Political Liberals' Dilemma," The International Migration Review 42(3) (Fall 2008) 576-96 (electronic copy available in UW library)
  • Robert Oppenheim and Heather Hindman, "Economices of Soft Power: Rereading Waves from Nepal." In Spaces of Possibility: In, Between, and Beyong Korea and Japan. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006) 197-223 (chapter 6 available electronically in UW library.

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 Last Updated:
9/26/2022

Contact the instructor at: sangok@u.washington.edu