Multicultural Centre

Department Member, Research Department

Researcher

Södertörn University College

About

Tobias Hübinette (Korean name: Lee Sam-dol) is a researcher at the Multicultural Centre, Botkyrka. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Irish Studies at the Division of Celtic Studies, Uppsala University, and a Master’s degree in Korean Studies at the Division of Korean Studies, Stockholm University. His Ph.D. dissertation in Korean Studies from 2005, "Comforting an orphaned nation" at the Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, examines the Korean adoption issue and representations of adopted Koreans in Korean popular culture. His present research concerns representations and images of East Asians in contemporary Swedish visual culture, and his latest monograph "Adoption with obstacles" from 2008 examines the concept of transraciality and the transracial experience seen through transnational adoptees' experiences of racialisation, racial identifications and relations to their non-white bodies. He is active within the international and multidisciplinary fields of Korean adoption studies, adoption cultural studies and critical adoption studies, and is also building up an extensive archive and library related to the subject. He is a member of the history project TRACK - Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea/진실과 화해를 위한 해외 입양인 모임 (www.adoptionjustice.com), and a political activist concerning adoption and Korea related topics and contexts, and he also works with and makes research for journalistic, literary, cinematic and artistic projects such as articles, novels, films and exhibitions, gives lectures and publishes books, and writes in Swedish, Korean and English language newspapers and journals on issues concerning National Socialism and Fascism, race and (post)colonialism, Korean-Swedish and East Asian-Swedish relations, Swedish and Western images and representations of Korea and Asia, and transnational adoption and transracial adoptees.

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