Vortrag von Dr. Shohei Saito: „Connecting Siberia with the West: A.V. Baikalov’s Thoughts on the Cooperative Movement and the Northern Sea Route“

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The lecture focuses on the theory of cooperation and Siberia by A.V. Baikalov, a Siberian intellectual who became an emigrant after the Russian Revolution of 1917. It explains the characteristics of his plans for the Northern Sea Route in the early 1920s. Dr. Shohei Saito is Associate Professor at the Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City...

Vortrag von Prof. Aeneas Zi Wang, Ph.D.: „Defining skills in the context of nation-building and talent competition: An analysis of Chinese skilled immigration policies and implications for comparative migration studies“

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As countries in East Asia are increasingly entering the global talent competition, there is still a paucity of information on how the notion of skill is construed in these less-studied destinations. This talk examines the concept of skill that has been embedded in China’s immigration policies since the late 1970s. It illustrates how the understanding...

Vortrag von Masahiro Maeda (Associate Professor): „Restoring rich interactions between people and the environment in cities: based on trends in ‚machizukuri‘ and community revitalization in Japan“

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Masahiro MAEDA (Associate professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University) In recent years, Japanese cities have been experiencing a decline in neighborhood communities due to population decline and aging, as well as excessive commercialization of housing due to urban redevelopment. As a result, people have lost opportunities to actively engage with their...

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. David Chiavacci: „‚Foreigners Are Committing Very Heinous Crimes‘: Framing of Deviance and Order in Japan’s Immigration Policy“

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In recent decades, following the terrorist attacks in the USA on September 11, 2001, a securitization of immigration policy has been identified in many Western industrialized countries. In the case of Japan, however, issues of public and national security have played a central role in immigration policy since the early 1950s and have helped to...