Jaeeun Kim

Jaeeun Kim is examining the hitherto underexplored nexus of migration, religion, and nation-states, focusing on the asylum-seeking of unauthorized migrants on religious grounds. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic research, she situates asylee-making in the “probationary citizenship” regime of contemporary immigration states, in which various state and non-state actors mobilize multiple, and often mutually contradictory, understandings of the “redeemability” of unauthorized migrants.