, and is now a research fellow at the Academy of Korean Studies conducting a research on migration to South Korea. Besides his academic writing, he contributes with articles to Hankyoreh-one of South Korea's largest selling newspapers. Of additional special interest both within the academy and in the policy community is his media work which embraces both photographic exposure and video presentations. His photographic work has received two awards and he has completed a documentary film called 'Our Kingdom' about migrant workers in Northern Ireland. This work was supported by the FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN project 'Changing Employment' ('The changing nature of employment in Europe in the context of challenges, threats and opportunities for employees and employers') under Grant no. 317321. Acknowledgements I am thankful to Prof. Paul Stewart for his continuous intellectual support and for serving as a source of inspiration during this research. I am especially grateful for his great openness to my ideas right from the beginning of this research project as it allowed me to develop a novel perspective on the study of migration and to take a unique path with which I could strongly identify.