News and Announcements

Dr. Diego Acosta (University of Bristol) will have a talk titled "Removing walls and fences in the 21st century. Towards a new paradigm of borders, free movement, and people?" The event is co-sponsored by The Global Asia Research Center.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"