Jihyun Choi

Contact

• workRoom B51 Law and Social Sciences building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Jihyun.Choi@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I joined the University of Nottingham as a teaching associate in August 2023. In 2022, I was awarded a PhD in Sociology from the University of Lancaster and hold an MA in International Studies from the University of Sheffield.

Teaching Summary

My current and past teaching in the School of Sociology and Social Policy is delivered as part of UG modules, entitled:

'Understanding Contemporary Society' (year 1);

'Investigating Social Worlds' (year 1);

'"Race", Ethnicity and Colonial Modernity' (year 3);

and 'Exploring Social and Cultural Identities through Films' (year 3).

Research Summary

My research focuses on the processes of urban (re-)development and multiculturalism, involving urban governance and racialization, particularly in the context of (racial) capitalism, Asian labour… read more

Recent Publications

• CHOI, J., 2024. Making moral and economic inferior others: Everyday racialization of Asian migrants in South Korea. Current Sociology. (In Press.)
• CHOI, J., 2024. Multicultural or migrant welcoming city? The urban partnership governance of diversity in South Korea In: International Conference on Urban Affairs 2024.
• KIM, D., PARK, S., CHOI, J. AND KANG, M., 2023. Case study of Country-of-Origin Information (COI) production bodies and legal frameworks in foreign countries. Ministry of Justice.
• CHOI, J., 2023. Everyday politics of recognition and (re-)distribution: Residents’ responses to multicultural and economic changes in Wongok-dong, South Korea In: Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference (NEAAS) 2023.

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Current Research

My research focuses on the processes of urban (re-)development and multiculturalism, involving urban governance and racialization, particularly in the context of (racial) capitalism, Asian labour migration and East Asian developmentalism.

• CHOI, J., 2024. Making moral and economic inferior others: Everyday racialization of Asian migrants in South Korea. Current Sociology. (In Press.)
• CHOI, J., 2024. Multicultural or migrant welcoming city? The urban partnership governance of diversity in South Korea In: International Conference on Urban Affairs 2024.
• KIM, D., PARK, S., CHOI, J. AND KANG, M., 2023. Case study of Country-of-Origin Information (COI) production bodies and legal frameworks in foreign countries. Ministry of Justice.
• CHOI, J., 2023. Everyday politics of recognition and (re-)distribution: Residents’ responses to multicultural and economic changes in Wongok-dong, South Korea In: Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference (NEAAS) 2023.
• CHOI, J., 2022. Everyday politics of recognition and (re-)distribution: residents’ responses to multicultural and economic changes in Wongok-dong, South Korea In: British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference 2022.
• CHOI, J., 2022. Everyday racialization in Wongok-dong, an urban multicultural neighbourhood in South Korea In: Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2022 Annual Conference 2022.
• CHOI, J., 2022. Everyday Racialization in Wongok-dong. In: Chonnam National University International Conference 2022 – Inclusion and Coexistence in an Age of Transition.
• CHOI, J., 2017. The urban multicultural, neoliberal development in Wongok-dong, South Korea. In: Sussex Migration Graduate Conference 2017 at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, the University of Sussex.
• CHO, Y. AND CHOI, J., 2013. Trends analysis to promote regional cooperation on international migration in East Asia: Focusing on issues of labour migration in Southeast Asia IOM Migration Research & Training Centre.