Akwi SEO

Degrees

Ph. D. in Sociology and Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University
MA in Sociology, University of Toronto

Research themes

Analysis of gender politics on migrant women
Social movements by Korean women in Japan
Civil activism and policy on migrant women in Korea

Select publication list

1.Seo, Akwi, 2017, " "Toward Postcolonial Feminist Subjectivity: Korean Women’s Redress Movement for 'Comfort Women'," Bullock, Julia C., Kano, Ayako, Welker, James, eds., Rethinking Japanese Feminisms, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

2.Seo, Akwi, 2017, Creating Subaltern Counterpublics: Korean Women in Japan and their Struggle for Night School, Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press.

3.Seo, Akwi, 2013, "Soin aux personnes ?gées et construction de l'identité ethnique", Hommes et Migrations, n.1302, pp. 117-24.

4.Seo, Akwi, 2008, "Formation of Ethnic Identity through Elder Care: An Analysis of Korean Women's Solidarity in a Day Home in Osaka", Journal of Asian Women's Studies, vol. 17, pp. 17-30.

Research field

Sociology of gender and migration
Postcolonial feminism

Membership of Academic Societies

Japan Sociological Society
Kantoh Sociological Society
International Society for Gender Studies
National Women's Studies Association (USA)

Funds

2015-2017 JSPS Kakenhi Grant C number 15K01922, Political Participation of Marriage Migrant Women in Korea.
2015 JSPS Kakenhi Publication of Scientific Research Results number 15HP6009.
2012-2014 JSPS Kakenhi Grant C number 24510373, Cultural Citizenship of Marriage Migrant Women in Multicultural Korea.
2011 JSPS Kakenhi Publication of Scientific Research Results number 235209.

Awards

2012 Yamakawa Kikue Award for Women's Studies
2012 Word and Gender Award

Lecture subjects

First year seminor
Introduction to Sociology
Research Methods
Sociology of Migration
Intercultural Communications
International Relations Seminor I, II
Global Issues in Contemporary World
Transnational Sociology Seminor I, II

Related field

• Social System Studies
• Experiential Learning
• Research of Women's Lifelong Education
• International Exchange

　

Keywords

Sociology, Migration, Gender, Multiculturalism, Postcolonial Feminism