Yangsook Kim is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. Her research conceives care as a key locus to analyze intersecting inequities of migration, gender, race, and labor. As a critical ethnographer, she is particularly interested in how marginalized people maneuver or resist the deepening inequalities. She is currently studying the ongoing immigration reform in South Korea and its impacts on low-wage care workers. Through collaboration with her community partners in South Korea, Yangsook seeks out activist scholarship that produces social justice-oriented knowledge. She joined the Carework Network Steering Committee in 2023, hoping to contribute to more inclusive global conversations across academia and advocacy.

Select Publications: 

Yang-Sook Kim, 2023. “National Care Experts and Public Daughters: Navigating Publicly Funded Eldercare Jobs in South Korea and the United States.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 30 (3), 903–924.

Jennifer Jihye Chun, Cynthia J Cranford, Yang-Sook Kim, and Jennifer Nazareno, 2023, Confronting Servitude: Asian Immigrant Women Workers in State-Funded Home Care, Signs, 49(1), 115-140.

Yang-Sook Kim, 2018, Care Work and Ethnic Boundary Marking in South Korea, Critical Sociology, 44 (7- 8), 1045-1059.