Hokkaido Workshop on Immigration Policy and Border Security in Japan
21 April 2018
8:00 – 8:30 Coffee
8:30 – 9:00 Introductory Remarks
Ken Endo
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
Edward Boyle
9:00 – 10:45 Contextualizing Border Policies in Japan
Chair: Edward Boyle
Discussant: Birte Wassenberg
Noell Wilson
“Historical Japan in a 21st Century Pacific Maritime World”
Jonathan Bull
“The legacy of reverse migration in Postwar Japan”
Junichi Akashi
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
“Foreign Care Workers and Nurses in Japan: Economic Stimulus or Migration Policy?”
Hiroshi Kimizuka
“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
“Care and Migration Regimes in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea”
Ed Pulford
TBA
14:30 – 15:00 Wrapping-up: Borders and Immigration in Japan
Eurasia Unit for Border Research (Japan)
