Yangsook Kim

Yangsook Kim is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University, joining in 2022. She specializes in International Migration, Care Work, and Transnational Communities, employing Comparative Ethnography and Qualitative Methods in her research.

• Education:
  • Master’s in Sociology, Korea University, South Korea
  • Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada (2020)
• Research Projects:
  • Comparative study of marginalized women’s care work precarity in South Korea and the U.S.
  • “Heroes in Precarity” project on eldercare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in California and Seoul
• Teaching:
  • Global Migration
  • Migrant Labor
  • Gender and Society
  • Race and Ethnicity

Email: kimy@fau.edu | Office: CU 245/Boca Campus