Doctoral Student
Graduate Program in Sociology, York University
slsam[at]yorku.ca
https://sites.google.com/view/seulsamlee
Seulsam Lee (이슬샘) is a PhD candidate in Sociology at York University. She earned a Specialized Honours BA in Sociology from Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea, and an MA in Sociology from York University. Her previous research focused on migrant women’s experiences of precarious work and precarious immigration status in South Korea and Canada, particularly in the context of the #MeToo movement.
Her dissertation examines temporary labour migration in Canada, with a particular focus on the Working Holiday Program. She explores how the experiences of East Asian migrant youth challenge and complicate conventional understandings of mobility and migration, freedom and precarity, and work and travel. Drawing on feminist political economy and racial capitalism, she investigates how global capitalism and social inequalities shape these experiences through a multi-method approach.
Outside academia, she has been involved in labour, feminist and migrant justice movements in South Korea and Canada. She is currently a member of the Women Migrants Human Rights Center of Korea (한국이주여성인권센터).
Research Keywords:
Asia; Korea; migrant rights; feminist theories