Angela McClean

Angela Y. McClean is a Lecturer in Sociology and East Asian Studies at Yale University. Her work examines migration and refugee governance in East Asia (particularly South Korea), focusing on how legal, political, and administrative institutions shape refugees' access to rights, mobility, and belonging. At Yale, she teaches courses on migration, systemic inequality, as well as society and politics in South Korea. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Bloomington and held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale and the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego.

Faculty Fellow 2026-2027