Jaeeun Kim, professeure invitée de l’EHESS
Jaeeun KIM is Korea Foundation Endowed Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Law (by Courtesy) at the University of Michigan. She is a political sociologist and law and society scholar, studying race/ethnicity/nationalism and migration/citizenship from a comparative-historical and transnational perspective. Kim is the author of an award-winning book, Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea (Stanford University Press 2016). Her article “Migration-Facilitating Capital: A Bourdieusian Theory of International Migration” (Sociological Theory 2018) won the Theory Prize from the American Sociological Association. She is currently working on her new book project about the asylum-seeking of unauthorized migrants on religious grounds, based on her...