​한국소매틱심리연구소

​선임 연구원  Researcher K, KooK (Ph.D)  

She has researched women in sexual violence and trafficking, with focusing on their gender, agency, and cross-border mobility. 

 

[Education] 

Diploma, University College London 

Master of Migration Studies, in Social Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Oxford

Ph.D in Sociology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

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[Publications] 

Kook, K. 2022 (forthcoming), Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling Networks: the Case of North Korea in Global Human Smuggling, Comparative Perspectives edited by David Kyle and Luigi Achille, The Johns Hopkins University Press 

Kook, 2019. North Korean Escapees’ Unthinkable Journeys and the Conceptual Binaries of Migration Policy School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, Doctoral Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Bristol University. 

Kook, K. 2019. Refugee smuggling from North Korea to China, Critical Insights on Irregular Migration Facilitation: Global Perspectives, edited by Gabriella Sanchez and Luigi Achille. the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

Kook, K. 2018. “I Want to Be Trafficked so I Can Migrate!”: Cross-Border Movement of North Koreans into China through Brokerage and Smuggling Networks. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 676(1), 114-134. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716217748591 

Kook, K. 2018. “Vulnerable North Korean ‘Criminals’ in China” in Asia Dialogue, Asia Research Institute of Nottingham University. https://theasiadialogue.com/2018/04/06/vulnerable-north-korean-criminals-in-china/ 

Kook, K. 2015. “North Korean migrants in China: neither trafficked nor smuggled”, Beyond Trafficking and Slavery Short Course: Migration and Mobility. Howard, N. (ed.) & O'Connell Davidson, J. (ed.)

Kook, K, 2007 “Please Marry Vietnamese Virgins: Vietnamese migrant woman’s experience in South Korea,” Culture & Society Vol.2, Center for Korean Culture & Society, 2006 (in Korean)