Cross-Border Breakups: Gendered Experiences of Divorce in French-Japanese couples
Tue 15 Apr
|Room 309, Building 19, Waseda University
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.
Date and Venue
15 Apr 2025, 17:30 – 18:30 GMT+9
Room 309, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Speaker:
Miyako Hayakawa (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Miyako Hayakawa is a social anthropologist, post-doctoral research fellow for the project AspirE, based on ULB. She received her Ph.D. from EHESS (Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in France. She is a former JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellow for her research on political science, at Sophia University and the University of Tokyo. Her research focuses on anthropology of family and kinship, Japanese migration, and privileged international mobility. She is the author of "Migrating to an ideal country? Democratisation of Japanese Migration to France" (Ebisu, Etudes japonaises, 2023). She is a member of MAF (Migrations asiatiques en France), Asian migration research network, and one of the main researchers of the REACTAsie project of MAF, an action-research on racism and discrimination against Asian immigrants in France.
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