Young Hi Shin is an environmental justice activist who co-founded and directed the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), which fought for workers’ rights in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] She advocated for awareness around occupational health and an end to language discrimination for limited English speakers.[9][10] Shin also works as a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley and has published in the academic journal Signs.[11][12]
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Shin immigrated to the United States from Korea.[13] In 1983, Shin co-founded AIWA.[13] In 1991, Shin was among 301 delegates who convened in Washington, D.C. for the First National People of Color Environmental Summit.[14][5][15][7] The work of Shin and Pam Tau Lee, co-founder of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, at the 1991 summit ensured that occupational health issues were included in the draft of "Principles of Environmental Justice" created during the summit.[15][16] This represented an important contribution to procedural justice and helped ensure that marginalized community members had a stake in environmental decisions that would impact their community.[15] Additionally, both Lee and Shin are reported to have infused English classes with political education to enable immigrant women to better communicate workplace and environmental hazards.[16]
In 2002, Shin was published in a report by Women's Environment & Development Organizations titled "a small world after all: Women Assess The State of the Environment In the U.S. and Beyond."[17]
In 2013, she was featured in the documentary Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World, which was directed by Gary Delgado.
References
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- ^ "Environmental Justice for Asians and Pacific Islanders | Reimagine!". www.reimaginerpe.org. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ^ Lee-Park, Zoe (2023-06-16). "The U.S. loves erasing Asian American history — including in the environmental justice movement". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ^ Lee, Pam Tau (1992). "Environmental Justice for Asians and Pacific Islanders". Race, Poverty & the Environment. 3 (1): 1–21. ISSN 1532-2874. JSTOR 41554027.
- ^ a b Ng, Lisa (2019-09-01). "Cyborgs for Environmental Justice: East Asian American Stories from the 1991 People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit". Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects.
- ^ Hardisty, Jean (1993-06-01). "Environmental Justice". Political Research Associates.
- ^ a b Berndt, Brooks (2021-03-25). "30th Anniversary: The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit". United Church of Christ. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ^ "Foundation News". Foundation News. 33. Council on Foundations: 28. 1992.
- ^ a b "Supporting the Leadership and Agency of Asian Immigrant Women". The San Francisco Foundation. 2020-07-20. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ^ Labor Notes. Labor Education and Research Project. 1991.
- ^ "Young Shin – Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies". 2011-01-17. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ^ Chun, Jennifer Jihye; Lipsitz, George; Shin, Young (June 2013). "Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 38 (4): 917–940. doi:10.1086/669575. ISSN 0097-9740. S2CID 146488995.
- ^ a b Berger, Rose Marie (1997-07-01). "Asian Immigrant Women Advocates". Sojourners. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ^ Kim, Roger; Matsuoka, Martha (2013). "Building a 21st Century Environmental Movement That Wins: Twenty Years of Environmental Justice Organizing by the Asian Pacific Environmental Network". AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community. 11 (1–2). ISSN 1545-0317.
- ^ a b c Sze, Julie (2011). Sze, Julie (ed.). "Asian American Immigrant and Refugee Environmental Justice Activism under Neoliberal Urbanism". Asian American Law Journal. doi:10.15779/Z38TZ9N.
- ^ a b Shah, Sonia (1997). Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire. South End Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780896085756.
- ^ "A Small World After All (2002)". WEDO. 2002-08-01. Retrieved 2023-10-04.