Papers by Anna Myunghee Kim
FORUM:for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2026
The article revisits 'hope' as the central goal of everyday schooling for both teachers and pupil... more The article revisits 'hope' as the central goal of everyday schooling for both teachers and pupils. Hope is understood as a critically informed doing-and-living hope. The paper calls for reckoning with the radical pedagogy of hope as a proactive classroom practice. I propose a teacher-led, proactive classroom exercise, facilitated by a 'hopedoing questioning' approach. That approach is designed to encourage young learners to recognise and believe in the potential and possibilities they have not previously been able to reckon with. Drawing on my experience as a parent of a neurodivergent minority child in key stages 2 and 3 in both public and private schools in East Berlin between 2020 and 2025, I shed light on the perils of a German functionary pedagogy. A functionary and deterministic pedagogy centred on teacher authority, disciplinary sanctioning and exclusion inevitably undermines genuine human dialogue and change. To counteract this, a simple but radical shift of focus in the everyday classroom environment is required-from one that focuses on curriculum delivery and quick disciplinary fixes, often involving the dismissal of children with difficulties, to the conscious practice of a 'hopeful dialogue' between teachers and pupils.
Population Review, 2009
The industrial world is ageing radically. Population ageing has been particularly dramatic in pos... more The industrial world is ageing radically. Population ageing has been particularly dramatic in post-industrial East Asian economies in terms of its pace and path. Having reached the replacement level of the total fertility rate (TFR) in the mid-1970s, Japan has been an 'aged' society since 1996 with more than 14 percent of the population aged over 65. In 2004, the TFR of Japan reached 1.29, the lowest in its history. Indeed, over the past decade sub-replacement fertility has become the norm across East Asia. Besides Japan, the former NIEs (Newly Industrialized Economies) such as South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong have also fallen into the 'lowest-low fertility' group , where the average number of children born to a reproductive woman is less than 1.3.
The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2007
... Abbie Erler did a wonderful job help-ing to edit the book in the final stages. ... Garrett, J... more ... Abbie Erler did a wonderful job help-ing to edit the book in the final stages. ... Garrett, Joyce Gelb, Peter Gourevitch, Anna Grzymala-Busse, John Huber, Torben Iversen, Junko Kato, Bob Keohane, Masaru Kohno, Ikuo Kume, Mathew McCubbins, Fiona McGillivray, Fiona Scott ...
This programme is implemented by the European Commission. It was established to financially suppo... more This programme is implemented by the European Commission. It was established to financially support the implementation of the objectives of the European Union in the employment, social affairs and equal opportunities area, and thereby contribute to the achievement of the Europe 2020 Strategy goals in these fields. The seven-year Programme targets all stakeholders who can help shape the development of appropriate and effective employment and social legislation and policies, across the EU-27, EFTA-EEA and EU candidate and pre-candidate countries. For more information see: http://ec.europa.eu/progress The information contained in this publication does not necessarily reflect the position or opinion of the European Commission.
International Journal of Manpower, 2013
PurposeThis paper's main purpose is to evaluate immigrants’ demand for social assistance and ... more PurposeThis paper's main purpose is to evaluate immigrants’ demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union.Design/methodology/approachAn online primary survey of experts from NGOs and public organizations working on immigrant integration in the member states of the European Union was carried out. The data is analyzed using simple comparative statistical methods; the robustness of the results is tested by means of logit and ordered logit statistical models.FindingsThe authors find that the general public in Europe has rather negative attitudes towards immigrants. Although the business community views immigrants somewhat less negatively, barriers to immigrant labor market inclusion identified include language and human capital gaps, a lack of recognition of foreign qualifications, discrimination, non‐transparent labor markets and institutional barriers such as legal restrictions for f...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the postsocialist in... more This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the postsocialist international migration system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented increase in the arrival of foreign labour. The majority of the low-skilled migrant workers come from the People's Republic of China. Based on a multivariate analysis of primary survey data on 525 predominantly undocumented Chinese migrants of Korean descent in Seoul, this study reveals the underexplored economic dimension of ethnic migration in Northeast Asia. Empirical findings on this source of migrant labour in South Korea demonstrate that the China-to-South Korea ethnic population movement is an important yet an unknown dimension of the New Economics of International Labour Migration. The study suggests that ethnic migration from a socialist transition economy to a capital-rich economy linked through ancestral connections must be (re)considered in the context of the changing global migration and demographic landscapes, rather than the ethno-nationally romanticised view of the return of diaspora.
IZA Institute of Labor Economics Discussion Paper Series, 2010
This paper provides an evaluation of the status of migrant workers in Germany amidst the global f... more This paper provides an evaluation of the status of migrant workers in Germany amidst the global financial crisis. Findings of the study are drawn from the latest available data on the labour market performance of native-German and non-German migrant workers as well as other socioeconomic integration measures of the receiving state. Compared to the experience of migrants in most of the major receiving states of the EU, the status of the predominantly low-skilled sector-employed migrant workers in Germany, where primarily the skilled-workforce concentrated industries of high-value products is affected, has remained unchanged during the crisis. On the other hand, marginalisation of the ethnic and national minority population appears to be a persistent phenomenon marked by long-standing labour market exclusion. This is manifested in over two decades of double-digit unemployment rates of the foreign migrant population in the former ‘guest-worker’ importing country. This implies for the e...
This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the postsocialist in... more This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the postsocialist international migration system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented increase in the arrival of foreign labour. The majority of the low-skilled migrant workers come from the People's Republic of China. Based on a multivariate analysis of primary survey data on 525 predominantly undocumented Chinese migrants of Korean descent in Seoul, this study reveals the underexplored economic dimension of ethnic migration in Northeast Asia. Empirical findings on this source of migrant labour in South Korea demonstrate that the China-to-South Korea ethnic population movement is an important yet an unknown dimension of the New Economics of International Labour Migration. The study suggests that ethnic migration from a socialist transition economy to a capital-rich economy linked through ancestral connections must be (re)considered in the context of the changing global migration and demographic landscapes, rather than the ethno-nationally romanticised view of the return of diaspora.
Datenbasis und Operationalisierung der Variablen
Familie und soziale Netzwerke, 2001
The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2008
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