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This talk and accompanying film "Chinese go home" (18 mins, dir. R. Leow) explore the history of mass deportations of ethnic Chinese to China during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960).

This talk considers bilateral labour agreements (BLAs) between countries of origin in South and Southeast Asia and Asia’s biggest destination economies, as well as relevant recruitment cost data, to identify the most beneficial recruitment policies for migrant workers.

This presentation explores the constraints faced by Japanese migrant women during the process of divorce or separation in the context of French-Japanese mixed marriages.

The burgeoning literature on migration and information and communication technologies (ICTs) provides rich empirical evidence of how social media and networking platforms are becoming integral to cross-border migration, increasingly blurring the boundaries between physical and virtual worlds.

This talk highlights recent empirical findings and the need for critically rethinking existing theories of migration and integration in the context of digital globalization.

Organized by: Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Colloquium Series, Chiba Studies on Migration and Refugees

This presentation addresses an old phenomenon in migration, namely that short-term intentions can lead to long-term stays, from a newer angle, by adopting de Haas’ aspirations-capabilities framework to map shifts over students’ mobility trajectories in pandemic and post-pandemic times. Students’ scope of action against geopolitical, economic and social structures is highlighted, by placing migrants’ perspectives at the center of analysis.

Increasing demand for food and agricultural labour has raised the urgent question: Who are the future farmers of the world and where will they come from?

What is the relationship between Brexit and the alternative ideological project put forward of a ‘Global Britain’, and the politics of migration and migration governance in post-Brexit Britain?

This talk compares the immigration policy during the Koizumi and Abe administrations and discusses this shift from prolonged stalemate to comprehensive reform by analyzing the framing and institutional setting in immigration policy around 2005 and in the late 2010s.

In this talk, Professor Shire shifts the focus from intermediaries in operating mobility to intermediation in the operation of labor markets across borders.

In this symposium, we ask how students from a wide range of social backgrounds, not just the socioeconomically affluent and academic elites, can be included in cross-border educational mobility.