Jessica Walton is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow at Deakin University. Her research is multi-disciplinary in scope with particular interests in the anthropology of education, sociology of racial, ethnic and cultural relations, and Korean studies. Jessica writes about transnational adoption, intercultural relations, racism, identity, and belonging in South Korea and Australia. Her current projects include a multi-sited ethnographic study of global school partnerships focused on South Korean and Australian children’s experiences (ARC DECRA), and a collaborative international project on 1.5/2nd generation Koreans and Korean adoptees in Australia and New Zealand (Academy of Korean Studies). Recent publications include an article in the Journal of Intercultural Studies (2015), and forthcoming book chapters titled, “‘I am Korean’: Contested belonging in a ‘multicultural’ Korea” (In C. Halse, Ed. Interrogating belonging for young people in schools, Palgrave Macmillan) and “Beyond ‘getting along’: Understanding embodied whiteness in educational spaces” (In G. Vass, J. Maxwell, S. Rudolph & K. Gulson, Eds., The relationality of race and racism in education, Routledge). Jessica is an assistant editor for the Journal of Intercultural Studies and founder of the Oceania Ethnography & Education Network which she coordinates with Prof Martin Forsey (UWA) (https://oeenblog.wordpress.com).