Assistant Professor
Hae Yeon Choo is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Faculty of the Asian Institute and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Choo’s research centres on gender, transnational migration and citizenship to examine global social inequality. Her first book, Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea (Stanford University Press 2016) reveals citizenship as a language of social and personal transformation within the pursuit of dignity, security and mobility. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, in Princeton in 2018–2019, working on her project on the politics of land ownership in South Korea.
Research Keywords:
Feminist Studies; Women and Gender; Transnational Migration and Citizenship; Global Social Inequality; Migrant Rights in South Korea