Yoonjeong You

Yoonjeong You is a junior scholar of the Wilson center. Her research project is "Are North Korean Defectors ‘Real’ Refugees?: Focusing on “Persecution” under the Three Kims’ Regimes." Her specific interests lie on refugee and human rights issues of North Korea and the Middle East, and she recently published a paper about the Jordanian refugee policy. Before joining the center, You worked as a research assistant at human rights institutes, such as SSK Human Rights Center and Asia Democracy Network, and did internships at refugee-related NGOs, such as APIL and Human Asia. You graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, majoring in Arabic and International Studies. She is currently a M.A. student of the Department of International Development and Cooperation at Korea University, Republic of Korea. Her dissertation is going to be about environmental refugees.