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Transcending Borders

2026 SNUAC Conference on Asian Studies · Asia and Beyond in an Age of Multi-Crisis

26–29 October 2026 · Seoul National University Asia Center, Building 101 · 18 sessions · 69 oral papers · 14 posters

Theme 1 · Migration InfrastructuresTheme 2 · Climate & RefugeesTheme 3 · Demographic & YouthTheme 4 · History & Literature
10/26 (Mon)Arrivals
Welcome Dinner Hoam Faculty House · funded participant
10/27 (Tue)Conference Day 1
Registration
Opening Ceremony · Group Photograph
Keynote Lecture Min Zhou
SESSION 1Room 220
Stratification
Chair  Hyunjoo Jung (Seoul National University)
  1. Steve McKay et al.Brokered and Bound: Migrant English-language Teachers and Stratification in the Korean Hagwon Industry
  2. Minjeong KimStratified Transnational Movements: Korean Immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
  3. Jongseok YoonAcross and Within Borders in Mobile China: Hukou, Mobility Infrastructure, and Variegated Developmental Citizenship
SESSION 11Room 406
Climate Refugee Frameworks
Chair  Jang, Young-ook (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)
  1. Devrim ErenCaste-Mediated Environmental Migration and the Politics of Urban Belonging: Constitutive Hierarchies and the Limits of Climate Refugee Frameworks in India
  2. Joyprokash MondalTranscending Borders of Vulnerability: A Comparative Study on Climate-Induced Displacement in the Indian Sundarbans and Coastal Thailand
  3. Yu-Chien JenResilience in Crisis: The Eruption of Mount Tambora and Rice Production in Taiwan (1815–1816)
SESSION 13Room 303
Reorienting Chinese Youth
Chair  Munyoung Cho (Yonsei University)
  1. Tian, FengFrom Certainty to Uncertainty: The proliferation of Relativism Among Contemporary Chinese Youth
  2. Lin KimReorienting the Good Life: A Genealogy of Youth (Im)mobility and Repertoire in Post-Developmental China
  3. Duoduo XuSelection Regimes: Institutional Change and the Two Faces of Vocational Education in China
SESSION 16Room 210
Diaspora & Belonging
Chair  Ilhong Ko (SNUAC)
  1. Deepanjali MishraLittle Korea in India: Understanding the Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Cultural Integration
  2. Leena SharmaDissonant Belongings: Sonic Reconfigurations of Nepalese Migrant Identity through GrindCore Music
  3. Aa Hermawan et al.Reading Illness from Afar: SAKTI's Health-Themed Literary Texts as a Site for Reinterpreting Indonesian Diasporic Migration Experience
  4. Jyotsna PrasadSinging Migration: Memory, Gender, and Mobility in Bhojpuri Bidesiya Traditions
Lunch
SESSION 2Room 220
Brokerage
Chair  Minjeong Kim (San Diego State University)
  1. Minji ChuRomanticizing Control: Broker Discourse and the Legitimation of Violence in Korean International Marriage Brokerage
  2. Hatice Nursena Yücel & Hatice ÇelikInfluencing Beyond Borders: Turkish Immigrant Influencers as Digital Migration Infrastructures Between Türkiye and South Korea
  3. Ana Mae RoaKorean Language Centers as Intermediaries in Mobility From the Philippines to South Korea
SESSION 5Room 304
Borderland
Chair  To be confirmed
  1. Asis MistryMobility without Integration? Everyday Regionalism and Competing Regimes of Mobility in Asia
  2. Amanberdi BegjanovCases of Forced Migration at the Turkmenistan-Iran Border since the 18th Century
  3. Zak GriffithsStealing gold, giving food: ‘imagined kinship communities’ and the politics of difference in the Kurdish borderlands of Iraq and Turkey
  4. Guangye QIFleeing to the Grasslands: Multi-Crisis, Mobility, and Informal Governance in the Pari Tibetan Region During the Republican Era of China
SESSION 12Room 406
Disaster & Indigenous Mobility
Chair  Yoon Hee Kang (Kookmin University)
  1. Bibhuti Bhusan Biswas & Puja KumariBeyond Borders of Climate Vulnerability: Environmental Displacement in Bangladesh and Myanmar and Its Implications for India
  2. Isabell Anna Katarina GleiterFrom Rice Paddies to Precarious Peripheries: Climate-Induced Spatial Displacement of Female Agricultural Workers in the Mekong Delta
  3. JONEL MARIA CABARelocated but Immobile: Post-Disaster Resettlement and the Politics of Staying in the Typhoon-Prone Philippines
  4. Igor Khodachek & Kirill IstominChanges in seasonal reindeer herding routes on the Yamal Peninsula under climate Change: mobility, displacement, and adaptive strategies of the Nenets nomads
SESSION 14Room 303
Placemaking After Mobility
Chair  Hyunji Kwon (Seoul National University)
  1. Eunyoung Christina ChoiTransnational Householding under Authoritarian Constraints: Kinship-Based Social Control, Migration Strategies, and Household Reconfiguration in Kim Jong Un’s North Korea
  2. Anna-Maria StabentheinerSharing Creativity: Art Projects and the Negotiation of Change in a Shitamachi area in Tokyo
  3. Takayuki Osuka・Miwa SegawaTrial and Error in the Tuning of Safer Spaces for youth migration: Case studies of Kawanishi, Hyogo and Shodoshima, Kagawa in Japan
  4. Yi’En ChengGender, Life Course and Borders in Cosmopolitan Self-Making Projects: Vietnamese and Thai Female Student-Marriage Migrants in Nanning, China
SESSION 17Room 210
Memory & Translation
Chair  Gi Yeon Koo (SNUAC)
  1. Bahar GÜRSELFrom Mudang to “Sorceress”: Archival Translation and the Transnational Displacement of Korean Shamanism in Early Twentieth-Century United States
  2. Fraser Denia Maude (Denia Fraser)Dead Mother: Daughter-Protagonists, Existential Erasure & Timeless Relationality in Contemporary Korean Diaspora Women’s Writing
  3. Maria Małgorzata SikoraCommemoration of Korean War Orphans in the Former Eastern Bloc
  4. Arim LeeHomosocial Genre Memory and Its Rupture: Cinematic Representations of the Kowloon Walled City and the Counter-Memory of No Law, No Heaven (2021)
Coffee Break
SESSION 3Room 220
Students & Governance
Chair  Steve Mckay (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  1. Daniel ChaiState Mediation of Educationally-Channeled Skilled Labor Migration: Evolving Educational Migration Infrastructures in Post-Developmental Taiwan
  2. Tetsuo MizukamiMigration Systems and the Growth of International Students in Japan: A Case Study of Tokyo
  3. MD Zahidul IslamGoverning the Corridor: A Migration Governance Decoupling Index for Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore
  4. Feba SimonAttraction Without Retention: The Role of Settlement Capability in the Migration Intentions of Indian Academics in South Korea
SESSION 10Room 406
Mobility & Geopolitics
Chair  To be confirmed
  1. Atsushi Takeda & Valentina MarinescuCross-border Mobility between Japan and Romania: Beyond Geographical Distance and Cultural Differences
  2. Man Fung YEUNGThe Role of Sanctions Relief in the Denuclearization Process: Implications for the Korean Peninsula
  3. Jewellord T. Nem Singh et al.Nickel, Oligarchs, and the State: Developmental Statecraft and Divergent Paths to Industrial Upgrading in Indonesia and the Philippines
  4. Edo Han Siu AndriesseSocio-environmental inequalities in Thailand and the Philippines: Implications for sustainable development efforts
  5. Teresa Yejoo KimImmobilities and Displaced Indigeneities of Korea’s Division
SESSION 15Room 303
Youth Autonomy
Chair  Baekyung Kim (Seoul National University)
  1. Kyoko TominagaDetours from Convenience: Making Autonomy from the Experience of the Takayama Architecture Seminar School
  2. Lan KimPost-IMF Social Transformation in South Korea and the Emergence of Youth as an ‘Economically Vulnerable’ Generation
  3. Kasumi ItoRethinking Independence through Multiple Sources of Support: A Case Study of WHO CARES? in Japan
  4. Yuil ChoiCrossing the Care Border: Latent Profiles of Transition Risk among Korean Care Leavers
SESSION 18Room 210
Borders & Decolonial Mobility
Chair  Hyung-Jong Kim (SNUAC)
  1. Meghashree DevWrong Papers, Migrant Lives: Migration, Carcerality, and the Making of Sikkim's Himalayan Borderland
  2. T. Tu HUYNHBodies in Print, Shadows in the Press: Translating South African Labor Reports and Late Qing Anti-Colonial and Anti-Qing Critique
  3. Anna KarthikaRecalcitrance of Exiled Bodies: Decolonial Narratives of Expulsion in Uganda
  4. Seongjo KimDuty as the Public Face of Shame: Transnational Mobility, Unhomeliness, and the Interior Border in Giri/Haji
Special Session Suhong Chae · Maitrii Aung-Thwin · Philippe Peycam
Dinner
10/28 (Wed)Conference Day 2
SESSION 4Room 304
Empowering Migrants
Chair  Hyung-Jong Kim (SNUAC)
  1. Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka Nguyen Dang Ngoc Mai Pham Nhat LinhYoung Vietnamese Migrants in Japan: Securing and Retaining Human Capital
  2. Dedi Irawan et al.MAPPING THE MIGRANT JOURNEY: CULTURAL LITERACY AND LIFE-COURSE STRATEGIES OF THE INDONESIAN COMMUNITY IN SOUTH KOREA AMID THE AGE OF MULTI-CRISIS
  3. Azka Hanifah Ahmada & Muhammad Pramanda NismaraThe Migrating Body: Immunological Adaptation and Survival Strategies Among Indonesian Migrants in South Korea
  4. Kong, Suk-kIBeyond Digital Inclusion: AI Platform Work, Migration, and Local Citizenship in Northeast Asia
SESSION 7Room 220
2nd Generation
Chair  Lora Bartlett (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  1. Thu Huong PhamGrowing Up between Two Cultures: Belonging and Intimate Relationships among Second Generation Vietnamese in the Czech Republic
  2. Diah Ayu Wulandari & Wiji AgustinA Comparative Study of Migration Infrastructures Shaping Educational Opportunities for Children of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Malaysia and Singapore
  3. Natalya YemEvaluating Life Trajectories: The Second Generation of Koryo-saram after Deportation in Kazakhstan
  4. Tina Rosa LeeNegotiating Self and Homeland: The Korean Reverse Diaspora Amid U.S.-China Rivalry and Geopolitical Multiculturalism
Lunch
SESSION 6Room 220
Refugee
Chair  To be confirmed
  1. Reiko OgawaUnsettling settling: Five Years of Becoming a Refugee in Japan
  2. Hasibullah MowahedEconomic Conditions, Employment and Income of Afghan Citizens in Japan
  3. Yukari ANDOThe Current Situations and Challenges for Afghan Refugees in Japan
  4. Yura HyeonInterconnected Mobilities: Yemeni Refugees’ Hope, Home, and Mobility in South Korea and beyond Borders
  5. Gi Yeon Koo (Najibullah Haidari)Panel: Challenges for Refugee Resettlement in Korea and Japan (Title: Five Years of Life in Korea: Afghan Special Contributors' Integration Realities and Remaining Challenges)
SESSION 8Room 304
Gender
Chair  To be confirmed
  1. Abhiruchi OjhaBeauty Work As Survival And Selfhood: Care, Body Politics, And Belonging Among African Migrant Women In Delhi
  2. Soringla RamanGendering Migration
  3. Nguyễn Khánh LêAdditive Transformation: How Vietnamese Women in Taiwan’s STEM Laboratories Carry, Meet, and Renegotiate Gendered Values
Coffee Break
SESSION 9Room 220
Arrival Infrastructure
Chair  Jungwon Huh (SNUAC)
  1. Heekyung Kim & Hyunjoo JungChurches as Arrival Infrastructure: The Reterritorialization of Mongolian International Students in Cheongju, South Korea
  2. Wipavee PhongpinA Thai Buddhist Temple as Religious Infrastructure of Care under Taiwan's Migration Regime
  3. Wonjung Min & Yeonjae RaFrom Non-Place to Place: Latin American Restaurants around U.S. Military Bases in South Korea
  4. Hee Eun KwonGlobal Mega-Events and Temporary Labor: A Comparative Ethnography of Temporary Migration Regimes in the Dubai 2020 and Osaka 2025 World Expos
10/29 (Thu)Field Trip · Korean Folk Village
Programme subject to change · Chairs marked “To be confirmed” pending appointmentsnuac.snu.ac.kr
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