Yoon Jung Park is an expert on Chinese migration in Africa and a sociologist by training with nearly 20 years of experience on the African continent. She has spent the last dozen years developing expertise on Chinese in Africa, both Chinese South African ethnic and national identity construction and new Chinese migrants on the continent. She is the Convener/Coordinator of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network at the China-Africa Knowledge Project.
Park earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from University of the Witwatersrand and, prior to that, received an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University in comparative politics and a B.A. from Pitzer College in Sociology and Women’s Studies. She has published extensively in academic journals; is regularly consulted by the media, other scholars, and graduate students on Chinese in Africa; and has become a much sought-after speaker on these topics.
