Migrant Struggles in South Korea and Elsewhere: Their Past Wounds, Present Commitments, and Future Projects—Interview with Manie (Jong-Man Choi)

Manie (Jong-Man Choi) has been working on the production of documentaries on migrant labor in South Korea since 2002. He lectures on media production at the migrant workers’ human rights advocacy group People of Earth’s Station. His first two documentaries, We Are All Migrant Workers (2003) and Which Is Illegal? (2004), can be viewed at maniebai.wixsite.com/migrants/about. Password access to view Still, We Are Migrant Workers (2018) at vimeo.com/265602852 can be obtained by emailing Manie at maniebai@gmail.com.

Joyce C. H. Liu is Chair Professor of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies and Director of the International Center for Cultural Studies, and the International Program of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Her research focuses on geopolitics, biopolitics, border politics, internal coloniality, epistemic decolonization, and artistic interventions. She is the author of six books and nine coedited volumes. Currently, she is leading two ongoing joint research projects: Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Critical Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (awarded by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan) (2018–22), and Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens in the Global Context (awarded by CHCI-Mellon Foundation) (2019–21).

Brett Neilson is a professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. With Sandro Mezzadra, he is author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (2013) and The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (2019).