Hyunok Lee is a Professor in the Department of Global Korean Studies Sogang University.

Her general research interest lies in exploring the gendered political economic processes in

East Asia, with a focus on social reproduction. She conducted research on the gendering

migration system in East Asia, the intersection of the migration regime and the care/welfare

regimes. Her current research interest includes citizenship in the post-developmental state

and welfare regime in East Asia and women’s movement including social and solidarity

economy, and unionization of care workers.

Research Interests: Gender, development and migration, Post-developmental Citizenship, Care regime, Social and Solidarity Economy, Women Workers Movement. 

- 학력

박사, Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA (2011.08 졸업)

석사, Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA (2006.01 졸업)

석사, Gender and Development, Sussex Universsity, UK (2003.01 졸업)

학사, 정치외교학, 연세대학교 (2001.02 졸업)

- 경력

(2023 ~ 현재) 서강대학교 글로벌한국학과 교수

(2013.9 ~ 2023.2) 연세대학교 미래캠퍼스 글로벌행정학과 조교수, 부교수
(2011.8 ~ 2013.8) National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute 박사후 연구원

Lee, Hyunok. 2024. The Paradox of Economic Growth and Gender Equality in South Korea. Critical Asian Studies, 57(1), 19-36.

Lee, Hyunok. 2024. “Gendering the Migration System in East Asia” in Chang, Kyungsup and Kim

로데스 베네리아, 귄셀리 베릭, 마리아 플로로 저, 이현옥 외 역, 2024 젠더, 발전, 지구화: 페미니스트 경제학 입문, 박영사

전미양, & 이현옥. 2024. 돌봄의 공간과 소속감 형성: 한부모 이주여성 역량강화 지원 프로그램 참여 경험을 중심으로. 다문화사회연구, 17(3), 105-141.

Lee, Hyunok. 2023. “Rise of the Social?: Socialization of Care and Gendered Social Economy in South Korea”, Asian Journal of Social Science

Lee, Hyunok, and Hyunjin Im. 2022. "Women's voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards." Gender & Development 30.1-2: 201-216

Lee, Hyunok. 2022. “Global Householding and a Question of Gendered Citizenship: A Case of Family Visit in South Korea”. Asia Pacific Migration Journal, 31(1), 52-69.

Lee, Hyunok. 2020. “From Factory Worker to Foreign Wife: Reading Migration and Development through a Gender Perspective”, in Huang S. and Luwanpura K. (ed) Handbook on Gender in Asia, Edward Elgar

이현옥, 박주희 2019 일상의 통제권을 담보한 돌봄 사회화 : 공동육아협동조합을 중심으로, 한국여성학, 35(3), pp. 79-112

Lee, Hyunok. 2018. “Governing the care regime: a comparative perspective on Japan and Korea, Development and Society, Institute for Social Development and Policy Research

Lee, Hyunok. 2018. ‘Gendered Migration in Changing Care Regime: A Case of Chinese Korean Migrants in South Korea’, Social Policy and Society, Cambridge University Press

Lee, Hyunok. 2017. “Négocier les frontiers: Parcours migratoires de Vietnamiennes”, Geneses, Vol. 108, 109-127 Lee, Hyunok. 2017. "Foreign to Disaster or New Point of Solidarity? A Vietnamese Victim’s Family in the Sewol Aftermath" in Suh, J. and Kim, M (ed) Challenges of modernization and governance in South Korea the sinking of the Sewol and its causes, Singapore: Palgrave McMillan, 169-186

이현옥. 2017. 재난 경험의 민족국가적 구획과 사회적 연대의 가능성: 베트남 결혼이민자 유가족의 경험을 중심으로, 서재정 김미경 (ed) 침몰한 세월호,난파하는 대한민국 : 압축적 근대화와 복합적 리스크, 서울: 한울아카데미

이구경숙, 이현옥, 김영정, 박주희 2017 사회적 경제와 여성노동 재의미화의 가능성, 한국여성학, 제33권 제1호, 2017.3, 201-237

이현옥 2016 동아시아 맥락에서의 돌봄레짐 변화와 이주의 여성화: 한국과 대만을 중심으로, 경제와 사회 110 239-269

Lee, Hyunok. Williams, Lindy. Arguillas, Florio. 2016. 'Adapting to Marriage Markets: International Marriage Migration from Vietnam to South Korea', Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. XLVII, No.2, 267-288

Lee, Hyunok. 2014.‘Trafficking in Women? Or Multicultural Family?: Contextual Difference in Commodification of Intimacy’, Gender, Place and Culture, Vol 21. No.10

Lee, Hyunok. 2013. ‘Global Householding for Social Reproduction: Vietnamese Marriage Migration to South Korea’, The Political Economy of Household in Asia, Palgrave MacMillan

Lee, Hyunok. 2012. ‘The Political Economy of Cross-Border Marriage: Economic Development and Social Reproduction in South Korea ', Feminist Economics, Vol. 18. No.2.

서울특별시 지속가능발전 자문위원 (2025년~현재)

한국여성재단 배분위원회 위원 (2023년~현재) 한국국제협력단(KOICA) 젠더전문가 자문위원 (2019년~현재) 아시아여성브릿지 두런두런 이사 (2014년~현재)

『경제와사회』 편집위원 (2023년~현재)

미국 미시간대학교 제도적 다양성 국가센터(NCID) Diversity Scholar (2012년~현재)