News and Announcements

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"

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.

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.