Global Korean Studies Major, Ewha Womans University

주제:  Nail Salons as Transnational Body Labor: Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Labor Rights and Diasporic Politics 강연자: Miliann Kang, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 일시: 12/11(수) 3:30 pm  장소: 국제교육관(IEB) 902호   In the summer of 2015, the New York Times (Times) published an explosive front page series by Sara Maslin Nir on the “The Price of Nice Nails” and “Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers.”   This series shined much-needed light on labor rights violations, toxic chemical exposures, and occupational health risk in New York City nail salons. Nir’s language and arguments, however, particularly her focus on a “rigid racial and ethnic caste system,” placed most of the blame on Korean immigrant small business owners for labor conditions they alone did not create and by themselves cannot fix. This framing of the story not only oversimplified a sense of Korean owners as villains, but it presented Latina and other Asian w...