News and Announcements

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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."

The Institute of Asian Migrations hosted an online seminar on Zoom by Haiqing Yu, Associate Professor at RMIT University. 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.

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?