News and announcements
2021
2nd November
Prof. Kukiko Nagayoshi (University of Tokyo) will present a seminar titled "Desirable Immigration Integration Policy for Japanese/Immigrants: A Social Survey of Japanese and Foreign Nationals"
For more information and attendance registration (FREE), CLICK HERE.
29th October
8th July
Prof. Mark Mullins (University of Auckland) will present a seminar titled "Unraveling the Symbiotic Relationship Between Religion, Nationalism, and Politics in Postwar Japan" to mark the publication of his latest book Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration (2021). The event is co-sponsored by the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
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Prof. Chris Burgess (Tsuda University) will present a seminar titled "The Impact of COVID-19 on Foreign Residents in 'No Immigration' Japan: 'Unwanted Isolation', Structural Inequity, and the Loss of Social Capital." The event is co-sponsored by the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
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27th May
The Belgian-Asian Couples Research Project organizes a seminar series titled "Mixedness and State Policies" at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Our Institute of Asian Migrations member, Eline Delmarcelle, will present a seminar titled "Becoming a national in Japan and Belgium: citizenship acquisition, ethnicity and identity negotiations".
For more information and attendance registration (FREE), CLICK HERE.
19th May
Why has Japan’s immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic,
demographic, and international political forces that are pushing Japan to admit more
immigrants? Michael Strausz will answer this question by drawing on insights from nearly two years of intensive field research in Japan. In addition to answering this question by
outlining the central argument of his 2019 book, Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in
Japan, 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.
For more information and attendance registration (FREE), CLICK HERE.
21st April
University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRIS) and Waseda University’s Institute of Asian Migrations (IAM) are proud to invite you to a second NODE UK|Japan webinar on Vulnerable migrants and Covid-19 in the UK and Japan.
This second joint seminar focuses on the issues faced by victims of forced migration and gender-based violence in the UK, as well as Nepalese restaurant workers in Japan.
For more information and attendance registration (FREE), CLICK HERE.
24th February
University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRIS) and Waseda University’s Institute of Asian Migrations (IAM) are proud to invite you to a NODE UK|Japan webinar on Vulnerable migrants and Covid-19 in the UK and Japan.
This jointly organised webinar explores the impact of Covid-19 on migrants with precarious legal status in the UK and Japan. It examines how migration governance in the context of a public health crisis can exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and produce new ones, affecting disproportionally migrant communities already at the margin of our societies.
For more information and attendance registration (FREE), CLICK HERE.
28th January
Waseda Contemporary Japan Study Group, the Institute of Asian Migrations, and the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies are proud to invite you to a mini-symposium on Nikkeijin Brazilian migration to Japan.
The 2-hour mini-symposium will feature two presentations by Suma Ikeuchi and Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer, followed by a discussion lead by Joshua Hotaka Roth.
This event will take place online at 19:00-21:00 (NYC time) or 16:00-18:00 (Californian time) on January 27th, and simultaneously at 9:00-11:00 on January 28th for attendants in Japan. Please register here to receive the Zoom invitation link before the event: https://forms.gle/jGRxW56XwtBAJYET9. The event will be online and will be recorded to be available for colleagues who cannot attend.
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14th January
The Institute of Asian Migrations is proud to invite you to an online seminar on Zoom given by WANG Zi, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Duisburg- Essen, titled “Migrants’ education and well-being during Covid-19: The case of Chinese communities in Germany”.
On January 14, 2021 at 17:00-18:30 (JST) / 9:00-10:30 (CET), Dr. Wang will discuss how young migrants’ educational and well-being needs – both academically and emotionally – during the Covid-19-induced school closure were addressed by community initiatives. Focusing on the Chinese communities in Germany, Dr. Wang will present data collected in Chinese heritage language (CHL) schools and show that their programmes had a positive impact on members’ overall well-being.
For more information and video recording of this event, CLICK HERE.
2020
17th December
The project "COVID-19 Response Measures and Migrant Workers' RIghts in Major East and Southeast Asian Destinations" that IAM member Dr. Jotaro Kato has taken part in has just released their report on COVID’s influences on migrant workers in East and Southeast Asia.
Link to the report: https://hrwg.org/2020/12/17/book-repression-and-resilience/
17th December
The Institute of Asian Migrations is proud to invite you to an online seminar on Zoom given by Mette Thunø, Associate Professor at Aarhus University, titled “China as an Authoritarian Diaspora State: Controlling Transnational Space”.
On Thursday December 17th at 17:00-18:30 (JST), Dr. Thunø will expose her research that seeks to go beyond the “wooing and tapping” theory to explain how the Chinese state manages its diaspora. She will outline how the party-states produces narratives that re-territorializes the diaspora through direct control with physical space, symbolic control of transnational space and discursive control of imaginative space.
For more information and attendance registration (FREE), CLICK HERE.
10th December
Prof. Gracia Liu-Farrer, the Director of IAM and Prof. Michael Strausz (Texas Christian University) talked about Japan’s immigration policies and their influences on immigrants in Japan at Japan Forum at UC San Diego.
Please check out the recording here:https://youtu.be/qDpR4xHCnT4.
It can also be accessed here:https://jfit.ucsd.edu/zoominar/past-japan-zoominars.html#Immigration-Policies-in-Japan
3rd December
The Institute of Asian Migrations hosted an online seminar on Zoom given by Daniel Awigra and Mariko Hayashi, respectively Project Leader and Research Coordinator of a research project studying the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on migrant workers and their livelihood.
On December 3rd, Daniel Awigra and Mariko Hayashi outlined the results of their cross-country research spanning over Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan. Civil society and experts took part in this study to explain how immigration policies and the recent COVID-crisis impacted migrant workers. Their findings suggest that the pandemic created additional layers of borders around migrant workers.
For more information, audio and video records on this online seminar, CLICK HERE.
26th November
15th April
The Institute of Asian Migrations hosted an online seminar on Zoom by Haiqing Yu, Associate Professor at RMIT University.
On Thursday November 26th, Dr. Yu exposed her multiple-methods research on social media among the Chinese diaspora in Australia. The lecture ended with a discussion on the controversies around Chinese social media platforms (WeChat and TikTok) in the West, Chinese Australians’ responses, and the implication for multicultural citizenship in Australia.
For more information, audio and video records on this online seminar, CLICK HERE.
Book release: Immigrant Japan - Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society by Gracia Liu-Farrer
Google Preview: CLICK HERE
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demographic profiles fit in the economic landscape? How do immigrants narrate belonging in an environment where they are "other" at a time when mobility is increasingly easy and belonging increasingly complex?
Gracia Liu-Farrer illuminates the lives of these immigrants by bringing in sociological, geographical, and psychological theories—guiding the reader through life trajectories of migrants of diverse backgrounds while also going so far as to suggest that Japan is already an immigrant country.
13th December
University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRIS) and Waseda University’s Institute of Asian Migrations (IAM) are proud to invite you to the launch of the special issue of Comparative Migration Studies. We will hear from editors and authors and celebrate the network with the launch of the new NODE portal.
For more information and attendance registration (FREE), CLICK HERE.
2022
1st June
Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj (PhD, Cambridge) will present a seminar titled "States of permanent temporariness, questioning notions of agency and belonging in Asian migrant mobilities: the case of the nowhere people from South Asia." The event is co-sponsored by the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
For more information and attendance registration (FREE), CLICK HERE.
The talk titled "How do Japanese immigration authorities exercise 'Administrative discretion' over undocumented foreigners? – the reality of detention facilities" by Journalist Yugo Hirano (Kyodo News Agency) will be postponed due to the speaker's availability. We will announce the new date and time once they are decided.
22nd June
Prof. David Slater (Sophia University) and Rosa Barbaran will have a talk with film clips titled "Hustle, abuse and making ends meet: work in Tokyo as a refugee asylum seeker." The event is co-sponsored by the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
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25th May
University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRIS) and Waseda University’s Institute of Asian Migrations (IAM) invite you to a NODE webinar on Health and Welfare of Immigrants.
For more information and attendance registration (FREE), CLICK HERE.
12th May
Mirna Safi (Sciences Po) will present a seminar titled "Migration and Inquality" about her latest book. The event is co-sponsored by the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
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11th May
Nicole Newendorp (Harvard University’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies) will present a seminar titled "Balancing Precarity and Wellbeing: Aging Chinese Migrants’ Global Lifeways." The event is co-sponsored by the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
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21st April
12th April
Prof. Christian Joppke (University of Bern, Switzerland) will present a seminar titled "Neoliberal Immigration Policies: Courting the Top v. Fending-Off the Bottom." The event is co-sponsored by the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
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Prof. Hilary Holbrow (Indiana University) will present a seminar titled "Low Migration, Gender Segregation, and Gender Inequality." The event is co-sponsored by the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
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26th July
Jocelyn O. Celero (Asian Center, University of the Philippines-Diliman) will have a talk titled "Intergenerational Intimacies and Mobilities in Transnational Families: The Experiences of Japanese-Filipino Children." The event is co-sponsored by the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
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