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Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub presents:
Monash Korean Studies Seminar Series 2024 - Seminar #2:
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Jane Lipura (University of Auckland)
Date & Time: 23rd April, 3pm AEST (5pm AKL Time)
Venue: Zoom
Register here: https://forms.gle/1SeREkLCYEYKzdjG9
Abstract:
This talk draws on the author’s doctoral dissertation that examines the pathways, experiences and imagined lives of Korean degree-seeking students in Fiji, India and the Philippines – study destinations considered to be at the periphery of global knowledge production while being referenced as popular among Koreans. Informed by the Migration and Mobilities Nexus Framework (MMN) (Piccoli et al., 2024), this presentation particularly features how the flows of Korean students across these three spaces manifest the complex interplay between migration and mobilities, impacting students’ everyday place-making and aspired trajectories. Employing the theoretical categories of continuum, enablement, hierarchy and opposition and drawing on narrative data empirically captured from three different locations, it highlights the following key findings: first, it illustrates how co-ethnic brokerage through the practices of different types of Korean migrants play a role in (re)producing continuing and more stable forms of knowledge mobilities in and out of Korea towards Fiji, India and the Philippines. Second, it reveals Korean students' fluid and contradicting ethnic and global identities as education migrants on the one hand and as mobile Koreans on the other. Lastly, it attends to the ways by which students’ narrations of their experiences and imagined lives reflect the indeterminacy and unevenness of migration-mobilities outcomes and trajectories. The findings featured in this talk hope to expand the thematic and geographical scope of as well as enrich critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on Korean Studies.
Bio:
Sarah Jane Lipura obtained her doctoral degree in Asian Studies from the University of Auckland. Her research sits at the intersections of contemporary educational mobilities, migration and Korean Studies and her work in these areas has been published in reputable international journals such as the Globalisation, Societies and Education, Research in Comparative and International Education, and Review of Korean Studies. In the Philippines, Sarah contributed actively to the promotion of Korean Studies through various initiatives supported by the Academy of Korean Studies and the Korea Foundation at Ateneo de Manila University.
Contact person: Sandy Nguyen (Sandy.nguyen1@monash.edu)
