Laura Hyun Yi Kang “Sallim: Tracing Female Labor in the Un-Global Korean Diaspora”

Building from the question of what would mean to tell the history of the world from the lives and concerns of Asian women, this talk unpacks the diverse extraction and unequal exploitation of female labor - the physical, social, and cultural work of girls and women - in the un-global Korean diaspora. By tracing how the long Cold War enforced disparate migrations and necessitated heterogeneous life-making practices in and across the borders of North Korea, Northeast China, Japan and the Central Independent States, this presentation attempts a feminist geohistorical critique of the rubric of “global Asias.”

Sponsored by Lectures and Concerts, the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program, the English Department, and the Asian Studies Department.

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