Organizers

Min-Jung Kwak is Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies at Saint Mary's University. She is an economic and social geographer whose work bridges academic research and community engagement. Her scholarship spans immigration and settlement studies, with projects examining the international education industry, immigrant entrepreneurship, transnational healthcare, and the mobility of knowledge and talent (i.e., intellectual migration). She co-edited a book entitled Outward and Upward Mobilities: International Students, Their Families and Structuring Institutions (UTP 2019). Over the years, she has collaborated closely with diverse immigrant communities across Canada's major cities, establishing enduring research partnerships with Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian organizations. In addition to her research, she serves as an executive member of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association, contributing to the advancement of scholarship on ethnicity, migration, and multiculturalism in Canada.

Ann H. Kim is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University and current Director of York’s Korean Office for Research and Education. Her co-edited books include: Korean Immigrants in Canada: Perspectives on Migration, Integration, and the Family (UTP 2012), Outward and Upward Mobilities: International Students, Their Families and Structuring Institutions (UTP 2019), and International Students from Asia in Canadian Universities: Institutional Challenges at the Intersection of Internationalization, Racialization, and Inclusion (Routledge 2024). She also belongs to the RAIS Collective, author of Not Your Cash Cow, Not Your Scapegoat: Student Migration and Canadian Universities (Fernwood 2026).