Hee Eun Kwon is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo. She is a qualitative researcher and a sociologist interested in international migration, culture, race/ethnicity, and belonging. Her current research focuses on temporary migrants’ sense of belonging through 32 months of immersive and extended ethnography in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Using the framework of “performance of cosmopolitanism,” her work explores cosmopolitanism as a social performance that conceals systems of categorical inequality. She received a PhD in Sociology from the University of California San Diego, and a BA in Social Research and Public Policy from New York University Abu Dhabi.
