Hokkaido WS on Immigration Policy and Border Security（4/21）のご案内

Hokkaido Workshop on Immigration Policy and Border Security in Japan

Venue: Rm#403, Slavic Eurasian Research Centre, Hokkaido University

Organized by the Jean Monnet Network

Comparing and Contrasting EU Border and Migration Policy – Are They Exemplary?

8:00 – 8:30 Coffee

8:30 – 9:00 Introductory Remarks

Ken Endo (Hokkaido University)

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (University of Victoria)

Edward Boyle (Kyushu University)

9:00 – 10:45 Contextualizing Border Policies in Japan

Chair: Edward Boyle

Discussant: Birte Wassenberg

Noell Wilson (2017-18 Fulbright Research Fellow, Hokkaido University & Croft Associate Professor, University of Mississippi)

　　“Historical Japan in a 21st Century Pacific Maritime World”

Jonathan Bull (Assistant Professor, Slavic-Eurasia Research Center)

　　“The legacy of reverse migration in Postwar Japan”

Junichi Akashi (Associate Professor, Tsukuba University)

　　TBA [in Japanese]

11:00 – 12:15 Agenda Setting and Immigration Control in Japan – When is migration policy not migration policy?

Chair: Naomi Chi

Discussant: Oliver Schmidtke

Yoshito Enomoto (Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, Hokkaido University)

　　“Foreign Care Workers and Nurses in Japan: Economic Stimulus or Migration Policy?”

Hiroshi Kimizuka (Director, Adjudication Division, Immigration Bureau)

　　“Administration of Immigration Control in Japan” [in Japanese]

13:15 – 14:30 Locating Japanese policy: Asian border and migration regimes

Chair: Iwashita Akihiro

Discussant: Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly

Reiko Ogawa (Graduate School of Social Science, Chiba University)

　　“Care and Migration Regimes in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea”

Ed Pulford (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow)

　　TBA

14:30 – 15:00 Wrapping-up: Borders and Immigration in Japan