Please register HERE in advance for this virtual event. Event Description Migrant Asian massage workers in North America first experienced the impacts of COVID-19 in the final weeks of January 2020, when business dropped drastically due to widespread xenophobic fears that the virus was concentrated in Chinese diasporic communities. The sustained economic devastation, which began […]
Friday, April 9th, 2021 | 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM ET View PDF version of this poster (232kb) This is a free event* but registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. *This event will be in Korean. Speaker: Lee Ji-Seong (Director of the 416 Memory Archive) Event […]
Monday, April 5, 2021 4:00-5:30 PM ET View PDF version of this poster (338kb). This event is organized by Hong KAL and Tammer El-Sheikh in the Department of Visual Art and Art History. Abstract: This talk discusses representations of body and sexual sovereignty for Two-Spirit, Indigenous Trans, Indigiqueer, gender non-conforming folks and women. […]
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 | 6:30-8:00pm EST Roundtable Participants Michelle Cho (East Asian Studies, U of T), Hae Yeon Choo (Sociology, U of T), Laam Hae (Politics, York), Yeon Ju Heo (WIND), Ann Kim (Sociology, York), Eunjung Lee (Social Work, U of T), Yoonkyung Lee (Sociology, U of T), Hyun Ok Park (Sociology, York), […]
Friday, March 12, 2021 | 3 - 4:30 pm (EST) | via Zoom In the past ten years, China has rapidly emerged as South Korea's most important economic partner. With the surge of goods and resources between the two countries, large waves of Korean migrants have opened small ethnic firms in Beijing's Koreatown, turning a […]
Thursday, February 25, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (EST) Korea’s platform labour market expanded considerably in a short period of time and there is also a diversity of platform labour. The purpose of this talk is to understand the operation of the Korean platform labour market and how the forms for work mismatch […]