Jaeeun Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaeeun Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaeeun |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0799-5819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Law, State, and Subjectivities at the Margins of Citizenship
What is the relationship between law/state and self? Studies of subjectivity, which refers to the relationship between self and power, seek to answer this question. Subjectivity compels us to consider how state power imposes norms, categories, and regulations through which selves are made up and become recognizable. Through this subjectivation process, we reproduce, legitimize, or at times challenge the power of law and state. To foreground the s…
Unauthorized Identity Craft: Rethinking “Fraud” in the Study of Migration
Crafting identity is integral to the struggle of aspiring migrants to access the territory, labor market, and citizenship of desired destinations. Such practices are at times classified as “fraud.” Migration scholars should approach this state-centered category with caution. Such framing naturalizes the state's monopolistic claim to the truth of individual identities. It obscures the complex moral terrain migrants navigate. We propose “unauthoriz…
Exploring behaviors and satisfaction of micro-electric vehicle sharing service users: Evidence from a demonstration project in Jeju Island, South Korea
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: Identity Craft and Relational Work in Asylum Claims-Making on Religious Grounds
Ethnic capital' and 'flexible citizenship' in unfavourable legal contexts: Stepwise migration of the Korean Chinese within and beyond northeast Asia
This article examines how migrants mobilise ethnicity for migration purposes by drawing on the migration trajectories of ethnic Korean migrants from northeast China (Korean Chinese) – through various steppingstone countries, including South Korea – to the U.S. I focus on how regulatory authorities, various intermediaries, and aspiring migrants interact over the valorisation, conversion, and legitimisation of what I call ‘ethnic capital’. Drawing …
Ethnic capital, migration, and citizenship: A Bourdieusian perspective
This article examines how ethnic capital operates in ethnic affinity migration and external citizenship. Criticizing the "methodological nationalism", inadequate theorization of the state, and "groupist" understanding of ethnicity that characterize existing scholarship on ethnic capital, I develop an alternative account drawing on Bourdieu. I highlight the importance of state power that consecrates ethnicity as a legitimate element in classifying…
Migration-Facilitating Capital: A Bourdieusian Theory of International Migration
Despite the centrality of the notion of 'capital,' scholarship on international migration has yet to fully explore the generative potential of Bourdieu's theory. This article 'thinks with' Bourdieu to theorize how states, aspiring migrants, and migration brokers interact over the valorization, conversion, and legitimization of various types of capital for migration purposes. Drawing on Bourdieu's theorization on the state, I identify the variegat…
Globalization, Transnationalism, and “Mobile Societies” from a Sociological Perspective: Comments on Engseng Ho's “Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies”
Speaking across disciplines is always easier said than done. Engseng Ho's thought-provoking article strives to do just that (and achieves the goal nicely), with its broad overview of the literature, the numerous examples that it draws on, and the ambitious conceptual innovations it proposes. As the only sociologist invited to comment on Ho's article, I see my task as bringing Ho's article into fruitful conversation with my own discipline, which i…
Detaining the Immigrant Other: Global and Transnational Issues
Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and diasporas. Specifically, Jaeeun Kim analyzes disputes over the belonging of Koreans in Japan and China, focusing on their contested relationship with the colonial and po…
The Colonial State, Migration, and Diasporic Nationhood in Korea
Studies of European colonialism have long documented how colonial states served as incubators of nationhood, yet the literature has limited its analytic scope largely to the encounters and ethnic mixings that took place within the territorial boundaries of colonies. This article examines a hitherto understudied phenomenon, the colonial state's trans-border engagement with its subjects who left the territorial unit of the colony and its impact on …
Establishing Identity: Documents, Performance, and Biometric Information in Immigration Proceedings
This article explores the politics of identification in immigration proceedings by examining the struggles over family-based immigration in South Korea in the context of ethnic Korean “return” migration from China. It focuses on micropolitical struggles in bureaucratic settings, analyzing how migrants and immigration bureaucrats struggle to establish kinship and marital status in order to secure or limit migrants' access to the labor market and c…
Transborder Membership Politics in Germany and Korea
This paper examines changing German and Korean policies towards transborder coethnics (Germans in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and Koreans in Japan and China) during the high Cold War and post-Cold War eras. The paper contributes to the emerging literature on transborder forms of membership and belonging by highlighting and explaining the selective, variable, contingent, contested, and revocable nature of states' embrace of transbo…
The making and unmaking of a 'transborder nation: South Korea during and after the Cold War
Migration-Facilitating Capital: A Bourdieusian Theory of International Migration
Despite the centrality of the notion of 'capital,' scholarship on international migration has yet to fully explore the generative potential of Bourdieu's theory. This article 'thinks with' Bourdieu to theorize how states, aspiring migrants, and migration brokers interact over the valorization, conversion, and legitimization of various types of capital for migration purposes. Drawing on Bourdieu's theorization on the state, I identify the variegat…
Ethnic capital, migration, and citizenship: A Bourdieusian perspective
This article examines how ethnic capital operates in ethnic affinity migration and external citizenship. Criticizing the "methodological nationalism", inadequate theorization of the state, and "groupist" understanding of ethnicity that characterize existing scholarship on ethnic capital, I develop an alternative account drawing on Bourdieu. I highlight the importance of state power that consecrates ethnicity as a legitimate element in classifying…
Ethnic capital' and 'flexible citizenship' in unfavourable legal contexts: Stepwise migration of the Korean Chinese within and beyond northeast Asia
This article examines how migrants mobilise ethnicity for migration purposes by drawing on the migration trajectories of ethnic Korean migrants from northeast China (Korean Chinese) – through various steppingstone countries, including South Korea – to the U.S. I focus on how regulatory authorities, various intermediaries, and aspiring migrants interact over the valorisation, conversion, and legitimisation of what I call ‘ethnic capital’. Drawing …
Establishing Identity: Documents, Performance, and Biometric Information in Immigration Proceedings
This article explores the politics of identification in immigration proceedings by examining the struggles over family-based immigration in South Korea in the context of ethnic Korean “return” migration from China. It focuses on micropolitical struggles in bureaucratic settings, analyzing how migrants and immigration bureaucrats struggle to establish kinship and marital status in order to secure or limit migrants' access to the labor market and c…
Detaining the Immigrant Other: Global and Transnational Issues
Transborder Membership Politics in Germany and Korea
This paper examines changing German and Korean policies towards transborder coethnics (Germans in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and Koreans in Japan and China) during the high Cold War and post-Cold War eras. The paper contributes to the emerging literature on transborder forms of membership and belonging by highlighting and explaining the selective, variable, contingent, contested, and revocable nature of states' embrace of transbo…
The making and unmaking of a 'transborder nation: South Korea during and after the Cold War
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: Identity Craft and Relational Work in Asylum Claims-Making on Religious Grounds
The Colonial State, Migration, and Diasporic Nationhood in Korea
Studies of European colonialism have long documented how colonial states served as incubators of nationhood, yet the literature has limited its analytic scope largely to the encounters and ethnic mixings that took place within the territorial boundaries of colonies. This article examines a hitherto understudied phenomenon, the colonial state's trans-border engagement with its subjects who left the territorial unit of the colony and its impact on …
The making and unmaking of a 'transborder nation: South Korea during and after the Cold War
Establishing Identity: Documents, Performance, and Biometric Information in Immigration Proceedings
This article explores the politics of identification in immigration proceedings by examining the struggles over family-based immigration in South Korea in the context of ethnic Korean “return” migration from China. It focuses on micropolitical struggles in bureaucratic settings, analyzing how migrants and immigration bureaucrats struggle to establish kinship and marital status in order to secure or limit migrants' access to the labor market and c…
Transborder Membership Politics in Germany and Korea
This paper examines changing German and Korean policies towards transborder coethnics (Germans in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and Koreans in Japan and China) during the high Cold War and post-Cold War eras. The paper contributes to the emerging literature on transborder forms of membership and belonging by highlighting and explaining the selective, variable, contingent, contested, and revocable nature of states' embrace of transbo…
The Colonial State, Migration, and Diasporic Nationhood in Korea
Studies of European colonialism have long documented how colonial states served as incubators of nationhood, yet the literature has limited its analytic scope largely to the encounters and ethnic mixings that took place within the territorial boundaries of colonies. This article examines a hitherto understudied phenomenon, the colonial state's trans-border engagement with its subjects who left the territorial unit of the colony and its impact on …
Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and diasporas. Specifically, Jaeeun Kim analyzes disputes over the belonging of Koreans in Japan and China, focusing on their contested relationship with the colonial and po…
Globalization, Transnationalism, and “Mobile Societies” from a Sociological Perspective: Comments on Engseng Ho's “Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies”
Speaking across disciplines is always easier said than done. Engseng Ho's thought-provoking article strives to do just that (and achieves the goal nicely), with its broad overview of the literature, the numerous examples that it draws on, and the ambitious conceptual innovations it proposes. As the only sociologist invited to comment on Ho's article, I see my task as bringing Ho's article into fruitful conversation with my own discipline, which i…
Detaining the Immigrant Other: Global and Transnational Issues
Migration-Facilitating Capital: A Bourdieusian Theory of International Migration
Despite the centrality of the notion of 'capital,' scholarship on international migration has yet to fully explore the generative potential of Bourdieu's theory. This article 'thinks with' Bourdieu to theorize how states, aspiring migrants, and migration brokers interact over the valorization, conversion, and legitimization of various types of capital for migration purposes. Drawing on Bourdieu's theorization on the state, I identify the variegat…
Ethnic capital' and 'flexible citizenship' in unfavourable legal contexts: Stepwise migration of the Korean Chinese within and beyond northeast Asia
This article examines how migrants mobilise ethnicity for migration purposes by drawing on the migration trajectories of ethnic Korean migrants from northeast China (Korean Chinese) – through various steppingstone countries, including South Korea – to the U.S. I focus on how regulatory authorities, various intermediaries, and aspiring migrants interact over the valorisation, conversion, and legitimisation of what I call ‘ethnic capital’. Drawing …
Ethnic capital, migration, and citizenship: A Bourdieusian perspective
This article examines how ethnic capital operates in ethnic affinity migration and external citizenship. Criticizing the "methodological nationalism", inadequate theorization of the state, and "groupist" understanding of ethnicity that characterize existing scholarship on ethnic capital, I develop an alternative account drawing on Bourdieu. I highlight the importance of state power that consecrates ethnicity as a legitimate element in classifying…
Exploring behaviors and satisfaction of micro-electric vehicle sharing service users: Evidence from a demonstration project in Jeju Island, South Korea
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: Identity Craft and Relational Work in Asylum Claims-Making on Religious Grounds
Law, State, and Subjectivities at the Margins of Citizenship
What is the relationship between law/state and self? Studies of subjectivity, which refers to the relationship between self and power, seek to answer this question. Subjectivity compels us to consider how state power imposes norms, categories, and regulations through which selves are made up and become recognizable. Through this subjectivation process, we reproduce, legitimize, or at times challenge the power of law and state. To foreground the s…
Unauthorized Identity Craft: Rethinking “Fraud” in the Study of Migration
Crafting identity is integral to the struggle of aspiring migrants to access the territory, labor market, and citizenship of desired destinations. Such practices are at times classified as “fraud.” Migration scholars should approach this state-centered category with caution. Such framing naturalizes the state's monopolistic claim to the truth of individual identities. It obscures the complex moral terrain migrants navigate. We propose “unauthoriz…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Citizenship (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (5 works) · Economics (5 works)