ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the work of the Social Transformation and International Migration (STIM) project at the University of Sydney, which since 2009 has been studying the effects of neoliberal globalisation on the economies and societies of four very different countries: Mexico, Turkey, South Korea and Australia. A main focus of the project has been to understand how the social transformations brought about by global change have shaped human mobility. The chapter gives a brief introduction to the theory and methods used in the STIM project, and discusses findings on one of the project's four main research topics: "the remaking of economy and society in the epoch of neoliberalism", in just one of the four countries studied: South Korea. Neoliberalism has brought about a new phase in the commodification of labour through the promotion of a global labour market, based not only on human capital but also on race, ethnicity, gender, national origins and legal status.
