Kyunghee Kook

Kyunghee Kook is a PhD candidate in sociology, University of Nottingham. She is primarily interested in forced migration, mobility, trafficking and human rights. She has researched North Korean Underground Railroad to freedom with focus on smuggling networks, trafficking and cross-border mobility.

Human smugglers roundtable: Kyunghee Kook

Provided by author Question 1 – the rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human

By Kyunghee Kook

/ 26 Mar 2016

Human smugglers roundtable: Kyunghee Kook

By Kyunghee Kook

/ 26 Mar 2016

North Korean migrants in China: neither trafficked nor smuggled

North Koreans’ migration to China is highly complex, more so than when it is depicted simply as ‘human-trafficking’ and/or ‘modern slavery’ in anti-trafficking discourse.

By Kyunghee Kook

/ 3 Jun 2015

North Korean migrants in China: neither trafficked nor smuggled

North Koreans’ migration to China is highly complex, more so than when it is depicted simply as ‘human-trafficking’ and/or ‘modern slavery’ in anti-trafficking discourse.

By Kyunghee Kook

/ 3 Jun 2015