Biography
Jungwon Huh considers the diverse contexts individuals live within, paying attention to their gender, age, geographical region, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, and placing the research subject at the center of analysis. She not only uses established qualitative and quantitative methods in sociology but also utilizes newly emerging Big Data to undertake detailed and deep analyses of the various inequalities that have resulted from rapid globalization. She investigates how the concepts and bonds of family have changed in a hyper-connected era that has seen the emergence, through globalization, of transnational families, using data to probe the fundamental processes of how families are formed and maintained across national borders. She is also greatly interested in topics of migration, such as the migration of women for marriage and the migration of laborers. She has carried out research with the Ministry of Justice on how policies regarding Korea’s foreign residents can promote diversity and social integration within Korean society. She has also published research into the families of Vietnamese women who migrated to Korea for marriage, and the women’s experiences of being invited to Korea. Furthermore, she is currently engaged in comparative research on how each Asian region is experiencing and responding to COVID-19.