Upcoming Events & Seminars
- 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
- 26 Jul, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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.
- 19 May 2021, 09:00 – 10:30 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)This presentation provides context to recent developments in Japanese immigration policy – particularly the December 2018 creation of new “Specified Skills Visas,” the role of immigration in the 2019 House of Councilors election, and the immigration policy response to the COVID pandemic.
- 21 Apr 2021, 17:00 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)This jointly organised webinar explores the impact of Covid-19 on migrants with precarious legal status in the UK and Japan.
- 24 Feb 2021, 18:00 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)This jointly organised webinar explores the impact of Covid-19 on migrants with precarious legal status in the UK and Japan.
- 28 Jan 2021, 09:00 – 11:00 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)“Taking Religion Seriously: Nikkei Pentecostal Christians and Their Quest for New Origin Stories” “Forever Foreign: Three Decades of Japanese-Brazilian Labor Migrants in Japan”
- 14 Jan 2021, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT+9Online via Zoom (Registration required)A Talk by WANG Zi (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Duisburg- Essen) The coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing lockdown affected social life in every regard. In critical times, the well-being of vulnerable groups is often at stake. Young migrants represent a case in point.
- 17 Dec 2020, 17:00 – 18:30Online via Zoom (Registration required)A talk with Mette Thunø (Aarhus University) It is the aim of this talk to discuss the most recent developments in China’s authoritarian diaspora governance and the ensuing reterritorialization and production of transnational space.