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News and Announcements

25 Sept 2024

November 16 2024: Becoming a Refugee in East Asia:
Evacuation from Afghanistan to Korea and Japan in the aftermath of Political Turmoil in 2021

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

November 16 2024: Becoming a Refugee in East Asia:
Evacuation from Afghanistan to Korea and Japan in the aftermath of Political Turmoil in 2021

7 Sept 2024

October 29 2024: Is this home? Chinese top graduates’ staying aspirations in Japan

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.

October 29 2024: Is this home? Chinese top graduates’ staying aspirations in Japan

15 Jun 2024

June 27 2024: Farmers on the Move: Investigating the Multinational Trajectories of Agricultural Workers

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?

June 27 2024: Farmers on the Move: Investigating the Multinational Trajectories of Agricultural Workers

24 May 2024

June 25 2024: The politics of migration of ‘Global Britain’

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?

June 25 2024: The politics of migration of ‘Global Britain’

1 Apr 2024

April 9 2024: Comparing Japan’s Immigration Policy under Koizumi and Abe: From Standstill to Dam Break

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.

April 9 2024: Comparing Japan’s Immigration Policy under Koizumi and Abe: From Standstill to Dam Break

7 Feb 2024

Dec 7 2023: [Book talk] Governing Migration For Development From the Global Souths

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

Dec 7 2023: [Book talk] Governing Migration For Development From the Global Souths

14 Jan 2024

[Feburary 2-3 2024] International Symposium: Democratizing International Student Mobility

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.

[Feburary 2-3 2024] International Symposium: Democratizing International Student Mobility

10 Nov 2023

Dec 7 2023: [Book talk] Governing Migration For Development From the Global Souths

This book lecture will explore migration gouvernance by providing perspectives from the global South(s). Based on the book structure, it will focus on the challenges and opportunities of governing migration on multiple levels: the subnational, national, regional and international.

Dec 7 2023: [Book talk] Governing Migration For Development From the Global Souths

18 Oct 2023

Dec 1 2023: Between global sex work and human trafficking: migrants’ resources for a safer journey in Japan and France

The presentation proposes a French-Japan comparison. It explores socio-legal settings and relational networks of the migrants in the sex trade.

Dec 1 2023: Between global sex work and human trafficking: migrants’ resources for a safer journey in Japan and France

18 Oct 2023

Nov 28 2023: Rethinking the 'Ethnocentric Firm': Place of Education and Attainment Among White-Collar Migrants to Japan

Scholars contend that Japanese firms hold white-collar foreign workers to a far higher bar for assimilation than do employers in other countries. This model of the ethnocentric firm suggests that the growing number of foreign-educated white-collar migrants in Japan should face steep labor market penalties, compared to migrants educated in Japan, because they have had fewer opportunities to familiarize themselves with Japanese working styles and norms. We test this hypothesis using a sample of 546 Asian white-collar foreign workers.

Nov 28 2023: Rethinking the 'Ethnocentric Firm': Place of Education and Attainment Among White-Collar Migrants to Japan

29 Jul 2023

[CALL FOR PAPERS] Waseda WIAPS/IAM: International Symposium: Democratizing International Student Mobility, Japan, February 2-3, 2024

The Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and The Waseda Institute of Asian Migrations are jointly organizing the international symposium “Democratizing International Student Mobility.” This symposium aims to examine international student mobility in the contemporary era with a specific focus on the issue of inequality and the practices and experiences related to the possibility of democratization of international education.

[CALL FOR PAPERS] Waseda WIAPS/IAM: International Symposium: Democratizing International Student Mobility, Japan, February 2-3, 2024

19 May 2023

July 5 2023: [Mini-symposium] Vietnamese Migrant Workers in Japan and the UK

A mini-symposium (in-person and online) with Dr. An Huy Tran (Bielefeld University), Dr. Sebastian Rumsby (Queen Mary University of London) and Dr. Aimi Nakamura (Duisburg-Essen University) on Vietnamese migration workers.
*Refreshments provided*
** This event will be recorded

July 5 2023: [Mini-symposium] Vietnamese Migrant Workers in Japan and the UK
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