Researcher Bio
In modern society, developing technologies have facilitated the movement of things, people, and information while also dramatically reducing the costs associated with linking these things together. These trends have resulted in fundamental changes to individuals’ lives. Jungwon Huh not only uses established qualitative and quantitative methods in sociology, but also utilizes newly emerging Big Data to undertake detailed and deep analyses of the various inequalities that have resulted from rapid globalization. She considers the diverse contexts individuals live within, paying attention to their gender, age, geographical region, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, and placing the research subject at the centre of analysis. She places emphasis on the ‘family’, which is the most basic unit making up society and the factor having the greatest influence over people’s lives. In particular, she investigates how the concepts and bonds of family have changed in a hyper-connected era that has seen the emergence, through globalization, of trans-national families, using data to probe the fundamental processes of how families are formed and maintained across national borders.
She is also greatly interested in topics of migration, such as the migration of women for marriage and the migration of laborers. She has carried out research with the Ministry of Justice and the Migration and Research Training Centre on how policies regarding Korea’s foreign residents can promote diversity and social integration within Korean society. She has also published research into the families of Vietnamese women who migrated to Korea for marriage, and the women’s experiences of being invited to Korea. Furthermore, she is currently engaged in comparative research on how each Asian region is experiencing and responding to Covid-19.
Key Publications
2020. Asia’s Young Generation, Diversity+Asia 15
2020. 「The effects of resource availability and neighborhood characteristics on the low-income single mothers’ welfare use」 Journal of the Korean Association of Professional Geographers, 54(3); 311-327
2020. Mapping Community-level Mobility Changes of Koreans and Immigrants Using Bigdata of “de Facto Population of Seoul”: Six Ethnic Enclaves in Seoul Under COVID-19 Epidemic, Space and Society, 30(3); 99-137
2020. Long-term Family Visit and Vietnamese Female Marriage Migrants’ Family Dynamics, Modern Society and Multiculturalism, 10(3); 81-129
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