Ko is a Ph.D. student with the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, and Hong is a Ph.D. student with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies.

The KAERA is an organization of Korean-American and Korean educational researchers dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, scholarship, and practice in education.

They are being recognized for their paper, “Social production of space and everday microagressions: A case study of (im)migrant youth in South Korea.”

Utilizing the Koryoin community from post-soviet states living in South Korea as a critical case, thise study explores how cultural, linguistic, legal, and economic bordering practices in space result in dehumanizing effects such as microaggressions inflicted towards (im)migrant students and entail academic and psychological harms, pushing Koryoin students out from the space of learning opportunity.

Ko and Hong were recognized during the 2019 KAERA Conference on April 5.