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Migrant Struggles in South Korea and Elsewhere
South Atlantic Quarterly, 2021
Bidduth, Syed, and Samar were dishonorably deported from South Korea about fifteen years ago while they were protesting for the rights of undocumented migrant workers. Since returning to their home countries, Bangladesh and Nepal, they have been practicing modes of solidarity that they learned during the years of struggle. Still, We Are Migrant Workers is a documentary film made to record their personal history, will, and current political projects. This is an interview about the historical background of labor migration in Korea, the struggles of the characters in the film, and the alternatives they have been pursuing in the wake of their deportations.
Gazing into Indonesian Migrants in Korea .pdf
This is my PPT note that I presented during the 2nd ASEAN-Korea Migration Network Project/International Experts Meeting on “Exploring the possibility of Co-prosperity among ASEAN and Korea through migration” organized by the IOM MRTC - International Organization for Migration - Migration Research International Organization for Migration (MRTC) and Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia -LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Sciences) held in Jakarta on March 13-14, 2017 at the Hotel Santika Indonesia. I talked about my involvement (as a migrant myself in Korea) with other Indonesian migrants in Korea, especially I was using my capacity as a migrant student who has been tutoring Indonesian migrant workers on their Sunday classes at Indonesia Open University in Korea. Apart from that, I was also talking as someone who has been involving myself in several programs held by PERPIKA (Indonesian Students Association in Korea) as well as by ICC (Indonesia Community Center)—a platform to unite all walks of Indonesian migrant workers in Korea. In particular, I was keen on examining (mostly) the worth-sharing positive activities and endeavors that Indonesian migrants have been undertaking. This is a deliberate effort to shed light on the need to leverage their positive image as compared to the mostly (probably) audible and visible news/reports of abuse/harsh treatment/other negative sentiments regarding Indonesian migrant workers.
Amerasia Journal, 2022
In this paper, I argue that the Cold War's militarized and imperialist logic has entangled with racialized migrant "illegality" to shape undocumented Korean immigrants' (in)voluntary enlistment in the MAVNI program. Drawing on several years of ethnographic research, I examine how young undocumented Koreans were mobilized in service of the US's imperial project to sustain its global supremacy through the "War on Terror." In particular, I attend to the way militarized imperialism embedded within U.S. citizenship becomes intimately tied to the transnational ideologies of South Korean militarized citizenship as experienced by the unprivileged descendants of the unending Cold War. The neoliberal practices of the DREAM Act and DACA only reinforced this connection. Focusing on the undocumented-to-military trajectory, this study contributes to interrogate the temporality of the racialized migrant "illegality" of Asian immigrants within the larger historical context of U.S. militarized imperialism in Asia during the unending Cold War.