About
Hyunok Lee is an assistant professor at the Department of Global Public Administration in Yonsei University, Korea. She received a PhD at the department of Development Sociology, Cornell University in USA. She wrote a dissertation on cross-border marriages between Korean men and Vietnamese women, titled Political Economy of Cross Border Marriages: Economic Changes and Social Reproduction in South Korea. Her publications include "The Political Economy of Cross-Border Marriage: Economic Development and Social Reproduction in South Korea", in Feminist Economics (2012), and "Trafficking in Women? Or Multicultural Family?: Contextual Difference in Commodification of Intimacy", in Gender, Place and Culture (forthcoming).
Current Work
Dr. Lee's general research interest lies on exploring the gendered political economic processes in East Asia with the focus on social reproduction. Her current research interests include gendering migration system in East Asia, citizenship in relation to developmental state and welfare regime in East Asia, intersection of migration regime and care/welfare regime, and Korean developmentalism in the Asian region.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Economics