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Jaeeun Kim is a political sociologist and law society scholar, focused on race, ethnicity, nationalism, international migration, and citizenship through a comparative-historical and transnational perspective. Her research utilizes relational, processual, and agentic frameworks for categorization and identification, employing comparative historical ethnographic methods and multi-sited approaches. Her empirical work centers on Korea, northeast Asia, and the Korean diaspora, particularly analyzed in her award-winning book "Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea". This work examines the complexities of transborder membership politics across various historical periods. Jaeeun's latest projects explore the interplay of migration, religion, and state dynamics, specifically in the context of asylum-seeking migrants, emphasizing the role of transnational religion and human rights. She advocates for a nuanced theorization of international migration within the framework of Bourdieusian theory of ethnic capital. Apart from her teaching role at the University of Michigan, Jaeeun has held a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton and Stanford, and has received multiple accolades for her contributions to sociology. She also serves as an editor for the journal Theory and Social Inquiry, reflecting her commitment to advancing sociological discourse.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
Teaching and research in sociology focused on political sociology and migration.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science