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When the Trump Administration made Christian refugees an exc eption to its “Muslim Ban\,” pundits wondered if this would require the gov ernment to assess who were real Christians. Does the state have the right o r capacity to establish an asylum-seeker’s religious identity? What kinds o f practical challenges\, legal intricacies\, and moral dilemmas do immigrat ion bureaucrats\, religious actors\, and asylum-seekers face? The lecture e xplores these questions through the case of ethnic Korean migrants from Chi na who apply for asylum in the U.S. as Christians. It highlights how migrat ion governance\, transnational religion\, and politics of humanitarianism a re navigated on the ground with its full complexity and contradictions.
Jaeeun Kim is the Korea Founda tion Endowed Associate Professor of Sociology and the Professor of Law (by Courtesy) at the University of Michigan. She studies race/ethnicity/nationa lism and international migration and citizenship from a comparative-histori cal and transnational perspective. Kim is the author of the award-winning b ook\, Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-C entury Korea (Stanford University Press 2016\; paperback 2020). Her ar ticle "Migration-Facilitating Capital: A Bourdieusian Theory of Internation al Migration" (Sociological Theory 2018) won the 2019 Theory Prize from the American Sociological Association.
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