[KS] 2017 International Workshop in Frankfurt

[Mi Jeong Jo]

*Home and Away:*

*Transnational Migration, Remittance and Homeland, Korea*



International Workshop at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt,
Germany

January 27, 2017



*Venue & Time*

Venue: Seminarhaus (Room 5.105, 5th floor), Campus Westend

Max-Horkheimer-Straße, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany

Time: 9:00-18:00, Friday, January 27, 2017



*Organizer & Sponsor*

Korean Studies at the Goethe University of Frankfurt & The Academy of
Korean Studies



*Workshop Program*


9:00-9:30

Registration

9:30-9:45

Welcome Remarks by Dr. *Bumhym Bek*, Consul General of Republic of Korea,
Frankfurt

Opening Remarks by Prof. Dr. *Elisabeth Hollender*, Dean of Linguistics &
Cultural Studies, Goethe-University of Frankfurt

*Session I Migration, Policy and Diaspora*

9:45-10:30

Keynote Speech I by *Thomas Faist *(Professor, University of Bielefeld

Migration and the Transnational Social Question

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

    Panel I  Chair: *Dolf Neuhaus* (Research Fellow, Goeth-University of
Frankfurt)

10:45-11:15

*Heike Hermanns* (Associate Professor, Gyeongsang National University

Guest Workers and Economic Migrants –Migrant Worker Policies in Germany

11:15*-*11:45

*Jong Chol An *(Junior Professor, University of Tübingen

>From Equal to Unequal Ethnic-Based Citizenship: The Politics of the Korean
 Overseas Act in Early 2000s

11:45-12:15

*Mi-Jeong Jo *(Research Fellow, Goethe-University) & *Yonson Ahn *
(Professor)

Migrant Network and Ethnic Community in ‘Homeland’: The Case of Koryo-Saram
in Gwangju, South Korea

12:15-12:45

*Won Dam Paik *(SungKongHoe University)

Mobile Asia, Asia in Us: The Return or Circulation of the Korean Diaspora

12:45-14:00

Lunch Break

*Session II Transnational Family and Homeland*

14:00-14:45

Keynote Speech II by *Hyunmi Kim *(Professor, Yonsei University)

Gender and Remittances: Intimacy Between Korean Men and Their Foreign
Spouses in South Korea

14:45-15:00

Coffee Break

Panel II  Chair: *You Jae Lee *(Professor, University of Tübingen)

15:00-15:30

*Hyun Ok Lee *(Assistant Professor, Yonsei University)
Employment Brokerage of Marriage Migrants and Changing Labor Market in
South Korea

15:30-16:00

*Ruixin Wei *(Research Fellow, Goethe University) & *Yonson Ahn *(Professor)
Cultural Capital, Education and Social Mobility: A Case Study of Korean
Chinese Children in Transnational Families

16:00-16:30

*Jerome de Wit *(Junior Professor, University of Tübingen
The City of Yanji as a Liminal Space to Imagine Korean Unification:
Focusing on Yi Munyŏl's 'An appointment with his brother'

16:30-17:30

*Soyoung Kim *(Professor, Korean National University of Arts)
Family Secrets in the Age of Migration: *Heart of Snow, Heart of Blow*
 (2014)

17:30-18:00

Q&A

Closing remarks by *Yonson Ahn* (Professor, Goethe-University of Frankfurt)



Contact:
Mi-Jeong Jo
Research Fellow
Korean Studies, korea.uni-frankfurt.de
Goethe-University of Frankfurt
Hauspostfach 159
Senckenberganlage 31
60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Email: jo at em.uni-frankfurt.de
Tel.: +49 (0)69 798 23864 <+49%2069%2079823864>
Fax:  +49 (0)69 798 24969 <+49%2069%2079824969>
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