91亚色 U professor awarded grant to study North Korean refugees in Canada
From January 17, 2018
For a little more than a decade (2003 to 2015), there was a small bump in the numbers of North Koreans in Canada, many of them seeking asylum. But the number of asylum seekers, which were in the hundreds, dwindled to only two by 2016.
Ann Kim
Ann Kim, associate professor of sociology and 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) faculty associate, was awarded a Child and Youth Refugee Coalition (CYRRC) grant to study the experiences of refugees from the Democratic People鈥檚 Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) in Canada.
The project, 鈥淲hen roots/routes matter: The appearance and disappearance of asylum seeking families from the DPRK in Canada,鈥 emerged out of Kim鈥檚 contacts with local Korean organizations, Hanvoice and KCWA Family and Social Services. Her study will examine the policy shifts that led to the decline in applications and the processes and experiences of integration of North Korean refugees. []