Kyungja Jung

Women's Movements

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 24-04-2008

DOI: 10.4324/9780203927397

Becoming Cosmopolitan Women while negotiating structurally limited choices: The case of Korean migrant sex workers in Australia

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 22-11-2019

DOI: 10.1177/1350508418812554

Abstract: International labor mobility holds the promise that one can become a cosmopolitan citizen of the world. But this interpretation of mobility rarely features in research and media focused on Asian women who travel and engage in sex work. In both arenas, the dominant narrative is that migrant sex workers are poor, the victims of sex trafficking, and pose a risk to public health. This narrative is laced with Orientalist overtones of the Asian sex worker as the alluringly exotic ‘other’, passive and particularly vulnerable, and in need of rescue. However, the interviews of 11 Korean women sex workers based in Sydney, Australia, challenge this narrative. These women engaged in a transnational quest to become cosmopolitan citizens of the world, albeit making logical choices from structurally limited options shaped by their multiple identities as women, sex workers, and Korean, and their relative precarious position in the Australian labor market. Their stories highlight how migration and work can be an agentic process of self-expression and self-actualization of identity. This identity has emerged against the backdrop of shifting meanings and practices of social reproduction in Korea, a country that has experienced a highly compressed transition from developing, to modern capitalist state. Theoretically, the article draws on post-colonial feminist theory to shed light into the conflicting views on migrant sex workers in existing research, by focusing on the women’s voices, which have been neglected or silenced.

Framing young South Korean working holidaymakers in Australia: A longitudinal analysis of South Korean newspapers from 2000 to 2018

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 16-08-2021

DOI: 10.1177/01171968211031964

Abstract: Temporary migration is a growing global trend, but there is little research on its representation in the media of origin countries. This paper fills this gap by examining how temporary migration is framed by using a longitudinal analysis that focuses on the representation of South Korean participants in the Australian Working Holiday Program in South Korean newspapers from 2000 to 2018. This paper explores the role that South Korean newspapers have played in constructing pro-migration discourses and representing the program, its participants, and their experiences while considering the social and political environments. Key focus areas identified include a “culture of migration,” national interest, economic imperatives/employment, and “victimization.”

Framing and dominant metaphors in the coverage of North Korea in the Australian media

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 04-2015

DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2015.1022588

The onward migration of North Korean refugees to Australia: in search of cosmopolitan habitus

Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)

Date: 12-2017

DOI: 10.5130/CCS.V9I3.5506

Abstract: Based on assumed common ethnicity, language and culture, South Korea is believed to be the best country for North Korean defectors to restart their lives. This is, however, not necessarily the case. Since the mid-2000s, 2000 to 3000 North Koreans have allegedly settled in the UK, Canada, the US, Australia and EU countries. Despite this trend and its broader implications, the onward migration process of North Korean refugees, together with their motivations and lived experiences, remain poorly addressed in academic research. Drawing from the unique experience of North Korean refugees’ onward movement to Australia, the paper suggests that discarding a North Korean identity and habitus and gaining cosmopolitan habitus are the main reasons behind North Korean defectors’ onward migration. The paper is the first empirical study on North Korean refugees resettled in Australia to adopt habitus as a theoretical framework, and thus provides new insight into migration studies.

Women’s Agency through Fashion in North Korea’s Transition

Publisher: International Quarterly for Asian Studies

Date: 2022

DOI: 10.11588/IQAS.2022.1.18546

Silence, mobility and ‘national values’: South Korean sex workers in Australia

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 04-04-2016

DOI: 10.1177/1363460715613289

Abstract: Korean women sex workers have attracted attention from Australian border security, South Korean government officials and Korean-Australian communities. This article considers how the bodies of these women have become the ‘iconic sites’ ( Luibhéid, 2002 : ix–xxvii) on which the South Korean government and immigrant Korean-Australian communities perform ‘national values’. Within Korean-Australian communities, Korean sex workers have been perceived as threats to the immigrant project of socio-economic mobility and ‘legitimate’ citizenship. We consider the silence that is desired of sex workers within immigrant communities and how this can be co-opted by anti-trafficking discourses that are still predicated on the helpless, voiceless female victim.

Rhetoric Versus Reality for the Women of North Korea: Mothers of the Revolution

Publisher: University of California Press

Date: 09-2006

DOI: 10.1525/AS.2006.46.5.741

Abstract: The role and status of women in North Korea have changed in recent years. Reports suggest that women, more than men, have become active players in emerging capitalist processes, particularly those centered on local markets, thus creating new opportunities for themselves and new challenges for the regime.

Practicing Feminism in South Korea

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 10-2013

DOI: 10.4324/9781315887289

Fashion and the Social Construction of Femininity in North Korea

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 18-09-2017

DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2017.1367757

Microstructural evolution and phase transformation in twinning induced plasticity steel induced by high-pressure torsion

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 05-2016

DOI: 10.1016/J.ACTAMAT.2016.02.045

Broken global explorations: The lived experience of Korean women working in the entertainment and sex industries in Sydney

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-07-2016

DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2016.1205377

A study of postcolonial representation of sexual violence against female international students in Australian newspapers

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-07-2023

DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2023.2258031

The Routledge Global History of Feminism

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 18-01-2022

DOI: 10.4324/9781003050049

From patriarchal socialism to grassroots capitalism: The role of female entrepreneurs in the transition of North Korea

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 05-2018

DOI: 10.1016/J.WSIF.2018.02.003

The Politics of ‘Speaking Out’: NESB Women and the Discourse of Sexual Assault in Australia

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 1998

DOI: 10.1080/12259276.1998.11665827

University Of Technology Sydney

Location: Australia

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Linkage - International - Grant ID: LX0453404

Start Date: 03-2004

End Date: 06-2005

Amount: $86,465.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP130101700

Start Date: 2013

End Date: 12-2017

Amount: $225,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

North Korea's Quiet Transformation: Women In The Rise Of The Informal Market

Start Date: 2013

End Date: 2015

Funder: Australian Research Council