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SUMMARY:Filmvorführung I: "Watashitachiwa Ningenda! We Are Human!" - A Film by Ko Chanyu
DESCRIPTION:In his nearly two-hour long documentary\, director Ko Chanyu connects the long struggle of Zainichi Koreans for formal recognition of Korean schools in post-war Japan with the death of the Sri Lankan woman Wishma Sandamali during detention at the Nagoya Immigration Center in March 2021. In his film\, Ko examines in detail how legal and systemic frameworks\, stemming from Japan’s colonial legacy\, still manifest in discriminatory practices towards migrants today. \nThe film that is a plea for an open\, multicultural society and peaceful coexistence has five chapters: It opens with the colonization of Korea (chōsen) by the Japanese Empire in 1910 and the legal vacuum affecting Zainichi Koreans with North Korean roots after the end of the Pacific War and the division of Korea. The first chapter highlights the decades-long legal battle over the certification of Korean schools (chōsen gakkō) – the subject of Ko’s first documentary Ai-tachi no Gakkō (Our School) from 2019 – as one facet of the discrimination against Zainichi Koreans in Japan. The following chapter explains the common root of the registration system for Zainichi Koreans in post-war Japan and current state migration policies\, such as the so-called “Technical Intern Training Program” (ginō jisshū seido) that enables participating companies to commit serious human rights violations. Next\, the documentary addresses the vulnerability of migrant children\, as policy-makers do not account for their precarious situation in measures like compulsory education. Through a series of personal testimonies in the fourth chapter\, the film bridges the gap from repressive refugee policies to violent conditions in detention centers. Finally\, the film discusses the circumstances surrounding Wishma Sandamali’s death\, thus closing the narrative circle of how actors of this racist system no longer see people as fellow human beings with equal rights\, but as foreigners\, whose dignity they do not hold in equal regard. \nThe screening is preceded by an introduction by migration researcher Dr. Megha Wadhwa\, research associate at FU Berlin. \nLanguage: Japanese with English subtitles \nScreen time: 114 min \nTrailer with English subtitles: https://youtu.be/NrtvZZ8ygpU \nDirector’s Biography – Ko Chanyu is a director\, author\, poet\, and playwright with a degree from Korea University in Tokyo. After serving as the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Mire (Mirai)\, which focuses on issues related to Zainichi Koreans\, he became a nonfiction author. He has published various books on Zainichi-Korean identity and experiences of discrimination. He is also a co-author of several anthologies. In 2015\, he founded the media company Life Eizo Works and became its managing director. Additionally\, he is a member of the board of the Journalist Club for Liberty (Jiyū Jānarisuto Kurabu). \nHis first documentary Ai-tachi no Gakkō (Our School)\, released in 2019\, was ranked among the ten best documentaries of the year by Japan’s oldest film magazine\, Kinema Junpo\, and won the Nihon Eiga Fukkō Prize. \nLocation: Japan-Zentrum der LMU\, Seminargebäude am Englischen Garten\, Oettingenstr. 67\, 80538 München\, Room B001. \nFotos: @https://ningenda.jp/fourwalling/ und @Ko Chanyu
URL:https://www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/event/filmvorfuehrung-i-watashitachiwa-ningenda-we-are-humans-ein-film-von-ko-chanyu/
LOCATION:https://www.lmu.de/raumfinder/#/building/bw7070/map?room=708000001_
CATEGORIES:Allgemein,Forschungskolloquium
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SUMMARY:Filmvorführung II: "Finding their Niche - Unheard Stories of Migrant Women" - A Film by Dr. Megha Wadhwa
DESCRIPTION:The hour-long film documents the life of two Indian women migrants who moved to Japan more than a decade ago as trailing spouses. The women were excited to move to a foreign country and to be with their husbands\, but they had no prior knowledge of Japan. Having witnessed at a distance the lives of their relatives settled in the US\, UK\, and Canada\, they had similar expectations for their own future lives in Japan. But the reality was to prove different from the expectation. In place of comfort\, luxury\, love\, and fun\, loneliness and fear took over. Through personal narratives told by the women\, we examine past\, present and future expectations and see how these affect their roles as Indian women\, wives\, mothers\, and workers in a foreign country\, as well as the challenges they faced in ‘Finding their Niche’. \nThe screening includes a Q&A with the director Dr. Magha Wadhwa. \nLanguage: English \nScreentime: 60 min. \nEnglish Trailer: https://vimeo.com/743482060 \nDirector’s Biography – Dr. Megha Wadhwa is a migration researcher and Japanese and Indian studies Scholar. She is a research associate at Free University of Berlin\, and a visiting fellow at Sophia University\, Tōkyō\, which is also her alma mater. Originally from New Delhi\, she was a resident of Tōkyō for about 15 years before she moved to Berlin in 2021. She is the author of the book ‘Indian Migrants in Tōkyō: A Study of Socio-Cultural\, Religious and Working Worlds’ (Routledge: 2021). She has also written several articles on the Indian community in Japan and other topics for The Japan Times and journals. Currently she is working on ‘Indian Professionals in Japan and Singapore: Migration Trends\, Labor Market Integration and Challenges’ and is a part of the research project – ‘Qualifications and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia’(QuaMaFA)\, supported by Federal Ministry of Education and Research\, Germany (BMBF). \nOrt: Japan-Zentrum der LMU\, Seminargebäude am Englischen Garten\, Oettingenstr. 67\, 80538 München\, Raum B001. \nFotos: @Megha Wadhwa
URL:https://www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/event/filmvorfuehrung-ii-finding-their-niche-unheard-stories-of-migrant-women-a-film-by-dr-megha-wadhwa/
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SUMMARY:Vortrag von Prof. James Farrer\, Ph.D.: "Small-scale Tokyo eateries as community spaces: from vigilance to mobilization"
DESCRIPTION:@ https://www.nishiogiology.org\nTokyo hosts one of the densest and most complex agglomerations of small businesses of any city in the world\, partly due to its legacy human-scale built environment organized around the commuter rail stations (Almazán 2022). This paper reports on long-term ethnographic research on the social lives of small eateries in Tokyo as places where a sense of community is created and sustained while social boundaries are also constructed. Neighborhood businesses have long been recognized as a mainstay of the social lives of urban communities. They support lively foot traffic that keeps “eyes on the street\,” supporting public safety and a sense of social trust (Jacobs 1961). These small businesses were also spaces in which community boundaries were defined and maintained (Suttles 1968). At the same time\, small businesses serve as “third places” in which people cultivate social ties\, have casual fun\, and engage in the life of the community in ways that are not possible in work and home settings (Oldenburg 1989). In Tokyo\, small eating and drinking spots are spaces in which regulars create social networks that operate as a type of social capital sustaining the social infrastructure of the neighborhood (Farrer 2023). This research provides ethnographic evidence of these social processes of community formation in Tokyo’s small eateries. \nLanguage: English \nAlmazán\, Jorge\, Studiolab. 2022. Emergent Tokyo: Designing the spontaneous city. Tokyo: Oro Editions. \nFarrer\, James. 2023. „Urban foodways and social sustainability: neighborhood restaurants as social infrastructure.“ Food\, Culture & Society (2023): 1-17. \nJacobs\, Jane. 1961. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House. \nOldenberg\, Ray. 1989. The Great Good Place: Cafes\, Coffee Shops\, Community Centers\, Beauty Parlors\, General Stores\, Bars\, Hangouts\, and How They Get You Through the Day. New York: Paragon House. \nSuttles\, Gerald D. 1968. The social order of the slum: Ethnicity and territory in the inner city. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. \nJames Farrer is professor of sociology and director of the graduate program in global studies at Sophia University\, Tokyo. He is specializing in urban sociology in Tokyo and Shanghai\, with publications on cuisine\, nightlife\, migrant communities\, and urban sexual cultures. In his ongoing research he focuses on urban foodscapes and the transformation of urban social infrastructure\, studying community life in Tokyo\, documenting the place making activities of small business people\, neighborhood social entrepreneurs\, and migrant communities. In recent years he extensively researched neighborhood gastronomy’s resilience and innovation in response to COVID-19. \nHis recent publications include The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities\, Imaginaries and Politics (2023\, with David L. Wank)\, which was awarded the 2024 ASFS Book Prize (Edited Volume Category) by the Association for the Study of Food and Society\, International Migrants in China’s Global City: The New Shanghailanders (2019)\, and Globalization and Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Contact Zones (2015). He has also published over 50 scholarly book chapters and articles\, including award-winning papers\, like Who Owns A Cuisine? The Grassroots Politics of Japanese Food in Europe (2021\, with Chuanfei Wang. Best Paper Award for Asian Anthropology 2021). His research activities are also published in a bilingual Japanese-English blog called Nishiogiology that aims to be accessible both to scholars and community members. \nDer Vortrag findet in Präsenz statt. Ort: Japan-Zentrum der LMU\, Seminargebäude am Englischen Garten\, Oettingenstr. 67\, 80538 München\, Raum 161. \nThis event is co-hosted with CRC 1369 „Cultures of Vigilance“.
URL:https://www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/event/vortrag-von-prof-james-farrer-ph-d-small-scale-tokyo-eateries-as-community-spaces-from-vigilance-to-mobilization/
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