Jay Song

The "Savage-Victim-Saviour" Story Grammar of the North Korean Human Rights Industry

Jay Song

Journal article  |  2021  |  Asian Studies Review

The article examines how the “human rights industry” has used the narratives of North Korean human rights activists and how actors..

The Nation over Gender and Class: Media Framing of Comfort Women in South Korea and Japan

Jay Song, Jun Ohashi

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Journal of Korean Studies

In December 2015, South Korea and Japan reached an agreement on resolving the “comfort women” issue that sparked media interests. ..

The hidden variable: environmental migration from North Korea

Jay Song, Benjamin Habib

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Pacific Review

North Korea’s vulnerability to environmental shocks is an under-appreciated variable in the country’s human insecurity profile. Ba..

Studying North Korea through North Korean migrants: lessons from the field

Jay Song, Steven Denney

Journal article  |  2019  |  Critical Asian Studies

This article examines the use of North Korean defectors’ accounts as a source of information for studying the Democratic People’s ..

North Korean Secondary Asylum in the United Kingdom

J Song, undefined Markus Bell

Journal article  |  2019  |  Migration Studies

The number of North Korean secondary migrants from South Korea has grown markedly in the last 10 years. Drawing on semi-structured..

Labour migration as complementary pathways for refugees in the Asia-Pacific

J Song

Report  |  2018

This working paper looks at current legal labour migration schemes in the Asia-Pacific region and examines if any can be opened to..

Contemporary Korea

Haina Lee, Elizabeth Mulqueeny, Jay Song, Yun Kim, Celine Law, Amy Grantham, Saffron Lai, Kathy Uyen, Irene Wang, Chloe Quinlan, Tahlia Kelly

Book  |  2018

Introduction: A History of Human Rights Society in Singapore 1965-2015

J Song

Book Chapter  |  2017

This volume, composed of nine distinctive chapters, records a history of human rights activists, their campaigns, main contentions..

A History of Human Rights Society in Singapore

Book  |  2017

This volume, composed of nine distinctive chapters, records a history of human rights activists, their campaigns, main contentions..

Removals of Failed Asylum Seekers in Australia: a comparative perspective

J Song, undefined Neil Cuthbert

Report  |  2017