Researchers

Tobias Hübinette has a PhD in Korean studies and is a reader in intercultural education and a senior lecturer in intercultural studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is engaged with critical adoption studies and Korean adoption studies, minority studies and Asian Swedish studies as well as Swedish critical race and whiteness studies, and he has published several books and other publications within these research fields in Korean, English and Swedish.

Mail: tobias.hubinette@kau.se

Hübinette, T. (2005). “Reconciling the past/Imagining the future: The Korean adoption issue and representations of adopted Koreans in Korean popular culture”. Asian Cinema 16(2), 110–121.

Hübinette, T. (2005). “Adoption ur ett koreanskt och ett svenskt perspektiv”. Barnboken 28(2), 23–32.

Hübinette, T. (2005). “The orphaned nation: Korea imagined as an overseas adopted child in Clon’s Abandoned Child and Park Kwang-su’s Berlin Report”. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 6(2), 227–244.

Hübinette, T. (2005). “The nation is a woman: The Korean nation embodied as an overseas adopted woman in Chang Kil-su’s Susanne Brink’s Arirang”. Intersections 11, 1–12.

Hübinette, T. (2006). Comforting an orphaned nation. Representations of international adoption and adopted Koreans in Korean popular culture. Seoul: Jimoondang Publishing Company.

Hübinette, T. (2006). “Att leva i den andres kropp: Om rasifierade erfarenheter och transrasiala identifikationer i utlandsadopterades självbiografier”. Locus. Tidskrift för forskning om barn och ungdomar 18(4), 16–31.

Hübinette, T. (2007). “Disembedded and free-floating bodies out-of-place and out-of-control: Examining the borderline existence of adopted Koreans”. Adoption & Culture 1(1), 129–162.

Hübinette, T. (2007). “Asian bodies out of control: Examining the adopted Korean existence”. In Rhacel, S.; Parreñas & Lok C.; Siu, D. (red.), Asian diasporas. New conceptions, new frameworks, 177–200. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Hübinette, T. (2007). “The Korean adoption issue and representations of adopted Koreans in Korean popular culture”. In Kathleen Ja Sook Bergquist, Elizabeth Vonk, Dong Soo Kim & Marvin D. Feit (red.), International Korean adoption: A fifty-year history of policy and practice, 221–233. New York: Haworth Press.

Hübinette, T. (2007). “Rasifierade erfarenheter och transrasiala identifikationer i utlandsadopterade svenskars självbiografier”. Nordic Journal of Social Work 27(2), 105–119.

Hübinette, T. (2007). “En adoptivkoreansk diaspora? Framväxten av en transnationell gemenskap”. In Olsson, E.; Lundqvist, C.; Rabo, A.; Sawyer, L.; Wahlbeck, Oe. & Åkesson, L. (red.), Transnationella rum. Diaspora, migration och gränsöverskridande relationer, 195–216. Umeå: Boréa.

Hübinette, T. (2009). “On being Swedish and not being white: Conversations with adoptees and adoptive parents on everyday racism in Sweden”. Journal of Korean Adoption Studies 1(1), 51–77.

Hübinette, T. (2009). “Imagining a global Koreatown: Representations of adopted Koreans in Sky’s music video Eternity and Lee Jang-soo’s feature film Love”. Norsk Tidsskrift for Migrasjonsforskning/Norwegian Journal of Migration Research 10(2), 45–65.

Hübinette, T. (2011). “Att överskrida ras: En introduktion till begreppet transrasialitet speglad genom transrasiala erfarenheter och fantasier”. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning 20(3-4), 49–57.

Hübinette, T. (2012). “Post-racial utopianism, white color-blindness and ‘the elephant in the room’: Racial issues for transnational adoptees of color”. In Gibbons, J.L. & Smith Rotabi, K. (red.), Intercountry adoption. Policies, practices, and outcomes, 221–229. Farnham: Ashgate.

Hübinette, T. (2018). “Reflektioner kring den svenska biopolitikens historia speglad genom institutionaliseringen av internationell adoption”. In Hübinette, T. & Wasniowski, A. (red.), Studier om rasism. Tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv på ras, vithet och diskriminering, 69–86. Malmö: Arx förlag.

Hübinette, T. (2019). Att skriva om svenskheten. Studier i de svenska rasrelationerna speglade genom den icke-vita svenska litteraturen. Malmö: Arx förlag.

Hübinette, T. (2020). ”When the Others other. Images and representations of transnational adoptees of color among non-adopted Swedes of color as reflected in contemporary Swedish minority literature”. Adoption & Culture 8(2), 245–264.

Hübinette, T. (2020). ”Transnational adoption and the emergence of Sweden’s progressive reproduction policy. A contribution to the biopolitical history of Sweden”. I Jenny Heijun Wills, Tobias Hübinette & Indigo Willing (red.), Adoption and multiculturalism. Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, 223–238. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Hübinette, T. (2021). Adopterad. En bok om Sveriges sista rasdebatt. Stockholm: Verbal förlag.

Hübinette, T. (2021). “The birth and development of critical adoption studies from a Swedish and Scandinavian lens”. Adoption & Culture 9(1), 34–38.

Hübinette, T. (2021). ”In search of the Swedish Asians: Representations of Asians and experiences of being Asian in contemporary Sweden as reflected in the non-white Swedish literature”. Nordic Journal of Migration Research 11(2), 188–201.

Hübinette, T. (2023). “Overseas Korean adoption and the birth of Swedish color-blindness. A study of how the Korean adoptees transformed Sweden’s attitude to race and the relationship between race and Swedishness”. European Journal of Korean Studies 22(2), 71–98.

Hübinette, T. (2024). “Sweden at a crossroads: The struggle for finding the truth about transnational adoption in the world’s leading adopting nation”. Adoption & Culture 12(2), 158–176.

Hübinette, T. (2024). Svenska asiater. Antiasiatisk rasism och framväxten av en ny minoritet. Stockholm: Verbal förlag.

Hübinette, T. (2025). ”The Swedish adoption world and the process of coming to terms with transnational adoption”. Genealogy no. 3/2025 (vol. 9), pp. 1-20.

Hübinette, T. & Andersson, M. (2012). “Between colour blindness and ethnicisation: Reading transnational adoption policy and practice in Sweden”. Adoption & Fostering 36(3-4), 97–103.

Hübinette, T. & Arvanitakis, J. (2012). “Transracial adoption, white cosmopolitanism and the fantasy of the global family”. Third Text 26(6), 691–703.

Hübinette, T. & Tigervall, C. (2008). Adoption med förhinder: Samtal med adopterade och adoptivföräldrar om vardagsrasism och etnisk identitet. Botkyrka: Mångkulturellt centrum.

Hübinette, T. & Tigervall C. (2008). “Erfarenheter av rasifiering hos adopterade och adoptivföräldrar: Om betydelsen av ett icke-vitt utseende i den svenska vardagen”. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift 15(3-4), 220–238.

Hübinette, T. & Tigervall, C. (2009). “When racism becomes individualised: Experiences of racialisation among adult adoptees and adoptive parents of Sweden”. In Keskinen, S.; Tuori, S.; Irni, S. & Mulinari, D. (red.), Complying with colonialism: Gender, race and ethnicity in the Nordic region, 119–135. Farnham: Ashgate.

Hübinette, T. & Tigervall, C. (2009). ”To be non-white in a colour-blind society: Conversations with adoptees and adoptive parents in Sweden on everyday racism”. Journal of Intercultural Studies 30(4), 335–353.