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Upcoming Events & Seminars
- 05 Jul, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT+9Room 711, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディングA roundtable discussion (in-person and online) with Dr. An Huy Tran (Bielefeld University), Dr. Sebastian Rumsby (Queen Mary University of London) and Dr. Aimi Muranaka (Duisburg-Essen University) on Vietnamese migration workers. *Refreshments provided* ** This event will be recorded
- POSTPONED (DATE TBD)Online via Zoom (Registration required)A talk with Yugo Hirano (Kyodo News Agency) In this talk, we will go back to the birth of Japanese immigration authorities after the Second World War historically and verify what happened and happens in detention facilities.
Previous Events & Seminars
- 31 May, 15:15 – 16:45 GMT+9Room 713, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディングThrough personal narratives told by Indian migrant women, we examine past, present and future expectations and see how these affect their roles as Indian women, wives, mothers, and workers in a foreign country, as well as the challenges they faced in ‘Finding their Niche’.
- 26 Apr, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT+9Shinjuku City, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディングThis talk by Professor Patrick Le Galès (Sciences Po) contrasts the case of London and Paris housing, shows major differences that have to be explained by public policies and two different forms of state-led strategies, as well as the impacts on class making and inequalities.
- 07 Apr, 16:30 – 18:00 GMT+9Shinjuku City, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディングMethod of differentiation has profound consequences, including the widespread mental stress that young people face in China, Japan, and other parts of the world today. In this conversation, participants are invited to share their personal experiences and observations about this phenomenon.
- 26 Jan, 18:00 – 19:30 GMT+9Room 711, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディングHybrid: In-person at Waseda University and Online via Zoom The talk will feature Dr. Helena Hof's latest publication "The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities"
- 11 Jan, 16:30 – 18:00 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A webinar with Dr. Beatrice Zani (McGill University) In this talk, I draw on my multi-sited ethnographic work in China and Taiwan, and I explore the mobilities of Chinese women who move from the countryside to the city in China and who re-migrate to Taiwan through marriage.
- 11 Nov 2022, 14:00 – 15:30 GMT+9Room 712, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディングHybrid: In-person at Waseda University and Online via Zoom The Global Asia Research Center, together with Institute of Asian Migrations, will be holding a seminar by Professor Diego Acosta (University of Bristol) discussing free movement regimes
- 26 Jul 2022, 16:30 – 18:00 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A Talk with Jocelyn O. Celero (Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman) How do children born of international marriage families narrate their relational lives over time?
- 22 Jun 2022, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A Talk with film clips by Prof. David Slater (Sophia University) and Rosa Barbaran How do asylum seekers in Tokyo survive and what are the costs, physical and psychological? We will lay out the situation and share some short film clips from our new film project: Refugee Work in Tokyo.
- 01 Jun 2022, 13:00 – 14:30 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A Seminar with Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj (PhD, Cambridge) The talk examines the dislocation of partition as a determining moment in Indian migrant mobility and looks at the longer term implications for families and government policy.
- 25 May 2022, 18:00 – 19:30 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) & Institute of Asian Migrations “THEY JUST LEFT ME” ASYLUM SEEKERS, HEALTH, AND ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE IN INSTITUTIONAL ACCOMMODATION BIG DATA ON THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS: THE NEXT STEP IN UNDERSTANDING THE MIGRANT EXPERIENCE
- 12 May 2022, 16:30 – 18:00 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A Seminar with Mirna Safi (Sciences Po) In this talk, Safi will outline a unified conceptual through which migration as a case study for inequality theory.
- 11 May 2022, 21:00 – 22:30 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A Seminar with Nicole Newendorp (Harvard University’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies) In this talk, Newendorp discusses how a group of precariously positioned retirement migrants achieved wellbeing through their global migratory trajectories from Southeast China to the U.S.
- 21 Apr 2022, 09:00 – 10:30 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A Seminar with Prof. Hilary Holbrow (Indiana University) Using novel data from a large Japanese manufacturing firm, Holbrow shows that attitudes towards women are less favorable where women are overrepresented among low-status job holders.
- 12 Apr 2022, 16:30 – 18:00 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A Seminar with Prof. Christian Joppke (University of Bern, Switzerland) Since the 1990, a “neoliberal” logic has made its appearance. In consists of a duality of “courting the top” and “fending-off the bottom”.
- 13 Dec 2021, 19:00 – 21:00 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) & Institute of Asian Migrations On 13 December at 10:00 (GMT)/19:00 (JST) we are launching the special issue of Comparative Migration Studies edited and authored by members of the NODE UK|Japan academic network.
- 02 Nov 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A Seminar with Prof. Kikuko Nagayoshi (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo) n this seminar, Professor. Nagayoshi will examine what Japanese and foreign nationals living in Japan think about the desirable integration policy based on social survey data conducted in 2017 and 2018.
- 29 Oct 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)"The Impact of COVID-19 on Foreign Residents in 'No Immigration' Japan: 'Unwanted Isolation', Structural Inequity, and the Loss of Social Capital" A Seminar with Prof. Chris Burgess (Tsuda University)
- 08 Jul 2021, 16:00 – 17:30 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A Seminar with Prof. Mark Mullins (University of Auckland) Yasukuni Fundamentalism examines the relationship between religion and resurgent nationalism in contemporary Japan.
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