The Academy of Mobility Humanities hosts its 36th Mobility Humanities Colloquium. Professor Hyunmee Kim from Yonsei University examines how refugee women resist conditions of mobility characterised by dispossession and expansion, and how they practice “transnationalism from below.” We ask for your interest and support.
Professor Hyunmee Kim began her presentation by emphasising the unique and intersectional status of refugee women compared to male refugees. In addition, she explained that refugee women are “culture producers who must regenerate their roots of their home country within their host country,” maintaining their original culture while modifying, updating, and sometimes abandoning their own cultural practices, creating complex and fluid life strategies at the same time. Professor Kim concluded that such cultural practices in the process of transnational movement have meaning as a journey of discovering places that can expand the meaning of goodness each individual constructs and practices.
Professor Hyunmee Kim earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and is currently a professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University. Her major publications include The Society of Flawless Fragments: Work and Adventure of 2060 Korean Women, Cultural Translation in the Global Era, and We All Leave Home: Living as Migrants in Korea. Academic papers include “Feminist Freedom of World-Building” and “The Ambiguous Belonging of International Students in South Korea’s Higher Education System.”
