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@article{ART002835370},
author={EuyRyung Jun},
title={“Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime},
journal={Asia Review},
issn={2234-0386},
year={2022},
volume={12},
number={1},
pages={3-31}

TY - JOUR
AU - EuyRyung Jun
TI - “Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime
JO - Asia Review
PY - 2022
VL - 12
IS - 1
PB - 아시아연구소
SP - 3
EP - 31
SN - 2234-0386
AB - This article aims at understanding the striking difference visible in the ways in which the Yemeni asylum seekers who entered South Korea in 2018 and the Afghans who were rescued by Operation Miracle in 2021, were each received in the country. Under which global political context and as what kind of “racialized and gendered bodies” did 500 Yemeni asylum seekers enter the country? Also, what is the global and South Korean context in which the 378 Afghans were defined as “special contributors” and what is the structure of hospitality that welcomed them as such? This article will discuss the way in which the “real refugee” and/or “refugee-ness” have been defined by global humanitarian politics since the mid to late 20th century and discuss how both Yemeni asylum seekers and Afghan special contributors exceed the “refugee-ness.” They are marked as “dangerous Muslim men” and “de-Muslimizing subjects of development” and thus exceed the refugee-ness. This reveals not only that humanitarian politics that regulate who the real refugee is, creates a politics of recognition among those who are not citizens, but also that it operates on top of the racial and sexual politics of empire and capital that have been reconfigured after 9/11. In this context, the difference between the event of 2018 and that of 2021 not only exists only on the surface but indeed veils the way in which South Korea becomes involved in the complicit workings between global humanitarian politics and the post-9/11 regime of racial and sexual politics. This article examines that the ways the coming of the above two groups were received in South Korea ultimately reproduce the post-9/11 politics of empire and capital.
KW - humanitarian politics;post-9/11 regime;racial and sexual politics;developmentalism;de-Muslimizing
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EuyRyung Jun. (2022). “Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime. Asia Review, 12(1), 3-31.

EuyRyung Jun. 2022, "“Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime", Asia Review, vol.12, no.1 pp.3-31.

EuyRyung Jun "“Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime" Asia Review 12.1 pp.3-31 (2022) : 3.

EuyRyung Jun. “Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime. 2022; 12(1), 3-31.

EuyRyung Jun. "“Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime" Asia Review 12, no.1 (2022) : 3-31.

EuyRyung Jun. “Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime. Asia Review, 12(1), 3-31.

EuyRyung Jun. “Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime. Asia Review. 2022; 12(1) 3-31.

EuyRyung Jun. “Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime. 2022; 12(1), 3-31.

EuyRyung Jun. "“Dangerous Muslim Men” and “Special Contributors”: The Complicity between Global Humanitarian Politics and Post-9/11 Regime" Asia Review 12, no.1 (2022) : 3-31.