In this episode, we take a look at the migrant worker movement in South Korea including an interview with Shekh al Mamun, vice president of the Migrants’ Trade Union and activist-academic Chulhyo Kim. We were also at the December 15th Migrant Workers’ Day rally in Dongdaemun to hear from participants.

The music you heard in this episode is:
‘Pay Day’ and ‘The Grave of the Hand’ by Stop Crackdown and 'Movement Proposition' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

References and Recommended Reading:

Kim, Chulhyo, Temporary labour migration, social movements and neoliberal transformation in South Korea, PhD thesis, Sydney University, 2018: www.researchgate.net/publication/32…in_South_Korea

Doucette, Jamie and Prey, Robert, ‘Between Migrant and Minjung: The Changing Face of Migrant Cultural Activism in Korea’, Asia Pacific Journal, 22 March 2010, Vol. 8, Issue 12, No. 2: apjjf.org/-Jamie-Doucette/3323/article.html.

Hye-Kyung Lee, ‘Gender, Migration and Civil Activism in South Korea, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal’, Vol. 12, No. 1-2, 2003, pp. 127-153.

Jun, EuyRyung, ‘"The frog that has forgotten its past": advocating for migrant worker rights in South Korea’, positions: east asia cultures critique, Vol 24: No. 23, Aug 2016, pp. 669-692.

Jun, EuyRyung, ‘Migrant Workers Amidst the Waves of Volunteers: Participation and Empowerment in South Korean Migrant Advocacy’, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 89, No. 3 (2016), pp. 753–780.

Jung, Sungshin, ‘From Undocumented Migrant Workers to Migrant Media Activists: A Case Study of MWTV Migrant Media Activists’, Korean Anthropology Review, vol. 3 (February 2019), pp. 175-210.

Koo, Se-Woong ‘The fight to secure migrant workers’ rights continues in South Korea’, Equal Times, 8 October 2015: www.equaltimes.org/the-fight-to-se…en#.XgBbtUczZPZ.

MacDonald, Sam, ‘Migrant workers’ victory in Korea’, RS21, 24 August 2015: www.rs21.org.uk/2015/08/24/migran…victory-in-korea/.

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