Lim | South Korea's Dilemma: Foreign Workers in a "Homogenous Society"
on recognition of multiculturalism—much forward movement has already been made.21 Timothy C. Lim is a Professor of Political Science at California State University, Los Angeles. His most recent book is The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea: Ideas, Discourse, and Institutional Change in a Homogenous Nation-State (Routledge, 2021). He is the author of Politics in East Asia: Explaining Change and Continuity and Doing Comparative Politics (both published by Rienner in 2015 and 2016, respectively). Dr. Lim’s research also appears in Asian Survey, Asian Ethnicity, Journal of Research in Gender Studies, Pacific Affairs, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Korean Studies, and numerous other journals. Born and raised in Berkeley, California, he received his doctorate from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and an M.A. from Columbia University.
My discussion in this article is admittedly quite general and even superficial. However, I discuss all the issues raised here in much greater depth in my recently published book, The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea: Ideas, Discourse, and Institutional Change in a Homogenous Nation-State (London and New York: Routledge, 2021). 21
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