Social enterprise and work integration of North Korean migrants in South Korea

Eric BIDET

Le Mans University

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Bokgyo Jeong

Rutgers University

Dr. Jeong is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark. He earned his PhD degree in the fields of public administration and international development from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.Prior to joining the Rutgers University community, Dr. Jeong taught at Robert Morris University in Pennsylvania in 2013. He worked at the NGO Branch of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations in 2012. His research interests include comparative civil society, nonprofit accountability, social entrepreneurship, partnership between civil society and international organizations, and the United Nations and NGO partnerships. His dissertation examined the driving forces that shaped the South Korean civil society sector and its surrounding accountability environments, taking a comparative look at nonprofits in the US and South Korea.

Abstract

For 40 years, the labor force integration of North Koreans living in the South did not present a significant challenge for several reasons: the annual number of defections was very low (until the late 1980s, only a few North... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Eric BIDET (Le Mans University)
  2. Bokgyo Jeong (Rutgers University)

Topic Area

Social enterprise models in an international perspectives

Session

F3 » Development Patterns of Social Enterprises in Eastern Asia (09:00 - Friday, 3rd July, tbc)

Paper

EMES_BIDET_JEONG.pdf

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