Kyunghee Kook

Kyunghee Kook is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Bristol. She is primarily interested in mobility, smuggling, trafficking and human rights.

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

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