Drawing on her personal experience as a factory laborer working alongside migrants and as a member of an international marriage union, Seonok Lee has unique access to the lives of intercultural couples and migrant workers. Combining her background with impressive ethnographic and interview research, Dr. Lee offers deep insight into how macro-racialization plays out in the everyday. A valuable addition to the body of work on race and South Korea!

Nadia Kim, Texas A & M University, USA

This insightful and timely book demonstrates with remarkable clarity how ethnicity, race, gender, and class intersect in South Korea's increasingly multicultural society. Combining nuanced ethnography with an original theoretical perspective, Seonok Lee illuminates the distinctive historical and social processes through which racial boundaries and hierarchies are produced in contemporary South Korea. An indispensable contribution to Korean Studies, to the global scholarship on race, migration, and inequality, and to the comparative study of racial formation in East Asia.

Vladimir Tikhonov, University of Oslo, Norway

Seonok Lee offers a master class in why understanding race is a global anthology rather than a Western memoir. With ethnographic precision, Lee reveals the palimpsest class, patriarchy, and national self-perception that tells the story of race in South Korea.

Ajay Parasram, Dalhousie University, unceded Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki