News and Announcements

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.

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.

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?