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Yoon Jung Park
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Dr Yoon Jung Park
Senior Researcher in the Centre for Sociological Research
Humanities Research Village
Email yjpark@uj.ac.za or yoon@tiscali.co.za
Telephone: (+27) 011 559 4271
Fascimilie: (+27) 011 559 1439
Mobile: (+27) 083 348 9241
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Dr. Yoon Jung Park is currently a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Studies at the University of Johannesburg and the convener/coordinator of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) International Research Working Group. She is the author of “A Matter of Honour. Being Chinese in South Africa” (Jacana, September 2008 and Lexington Books, April 2009), which is based on her PhD research on constructions of Chinese South African identities, as well as numerous other articles and book chapters.
Her current research projects revolve around Chinese communities in southern Africa, including Chinese South Africans and new Chinese migrants from both Taiwan and mainland China. She is engaged in three inter-related projects examining new Chinese migration and settlement patterns, African perceptions of the Chinese, and mobilizations of anti-Chinese sentiment. She has also begun some preliminary research examining other Asian migrant communities in South Africa as well as some of the gender, race, and class aspects of xenophobia.
Dr. Park is married and has an 8-year-old daughter. She was born in Seoul, Korea; grew up in Los Angeles, CA; and has lived in Africa (Johannesburg and Nairobi) since 1995. She has also lived, for brief periods, in Cuernavaca, Mexico; Boston, Massachusetts; San Jose, Costa Rica; and Washington, DC. She speaks English and Spanish, some Korean, and smatterings of Kiswahili and IsiZulu; she can also understand some basic Portuguese, Italian and French.
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Qualifications
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PhD, Sociology, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA, 2006
MA, International Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA, 1991
BA, Sociology & Women’s Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, USA, 1986 |
Research interests
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Dr. Park’s current research interests include Chinese in southern Africa (and perceptions of Chinese by local communities); migration; race, ethnicity and identity; race, class and power dynamics; and xenophobia. In her previous lives, she did work on gender and gender-based violence in the US and South Africa; consulted on rural community development projects; and worked in arts & culture with the Smithsonian Institution. |
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Academic membership
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Convener/Coordinator, Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Working Group
Working Group Convener: race, ethnicity, & class, South African Sociological Association
(SASA)Member
International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) |
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Recent papers and publications
Park, YJ. 2009 “Recent Chinese Migrations to South Africa: New Intersections of Race, Class & Ethnicity” in Representation, Expression and Identity. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Tina Rahimy (ed). E-book published by Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp 153-168. Available on http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/representation-expression-and-identity/
Park, YJ. Spring 2008 “White, Honorary White, or Non-White? Apartheid-era Constructions of Chinese,” in Afro-Hispanic Review 27.1 Special Issue on Afro-Asia (Guest Editors Evelyn Hu-DeHart and Kathleen López) pp 123-138
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