BUCSA Symposium on Citizenship and Migration in East Asia: A Comparative Perspective (Nov. 21, 2019)

The BU Center for the Study of Asia is pleased to present a

Symposium on

Citizenship and Migration in East Asia:
A Comparative Perspective

Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019 from 3-5:30 pm, with a reception to follow

Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA 02215, USA

featuring

Deborah J. Milly, Ph.D.

(Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech)

“Transcending Policies: Markets, Local Governments,
and Asian Migration to Japan”

Michael Orlando Sharpe, M.I.A., Ph.D. 

(Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, York College of The City University of New York)

“The Emerging Migration State in Japan and the Ambivalent Migration State in the Netherlands: Divergent Pathways for Regions?”

Erin Aeran Chung, Ph.D.

(Charles D. Miller Chair in East Asian Politics, Department of Political Science
Johns Hopkins University)

“Civic Legacies and Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies” 

and Commentator 

Peggy Levitt

(Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies, and Professor of Sociology,  Wellesley College)

About the Speakers:

Deborah J. Milly is Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Her current research interests include Japanese responses to increased immigration, comparative and global responses to international migration, and comparative patterns of interaction between state and civil society actors. In addition to her books New Policies for New Residents (Cornell University Press, 2014) and Poverty, Equality, and Growth: The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan (Harvard University Asia Council, 1999), she has presented papers on these subjects at numerous conferences and international meetings. During fall semester 2014, Dr. Milly used a sabbatical to conduct research on to the evolving policy discussion of international health care workers in Japan, work that continued during 2015 and 2016 with support from a Fulbright research award. She received a Niles Research Grant during the 2018–2019 academic year.

Michael Orlando Sharpe is an Associate Professor of Political Science at York College of the City University of New York. Dr. Sharpe’s areas of expertise are comparative politics and international relations and his research interests concern looking comparatively at the politics of migration, immigrant political incorporation, and political transnationalism in Japan, the Netherlands, and around the world. His first book entitled Postcolonial Citizens and Ethnic Migration: The Netherlands and Japan in the Age of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) provides a cross-regional investigation of the role of citizenship and ethnicity in migration, exploring the political realities of Dutch Antilleans in the Netherlands and Latin American Nikkeijin in Japan. Some of his work has appeared in the scholarly peer reviewed journals Japanese Journal of Political Science, Policy and Society, Dialectical Anthropology, International Relations of the Asia- Pacific, encyclopedias, and popular media. His current research concerns the politics of remigration or the paid voluntary return of migrants and their families (“pay to go schemes”) and implicit boundary making in liberal democracies. He holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. Additionally, Dr. Sharpe holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, a Graduate Diploma in International Law and Organization for Development from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers College / Rutgers University. He has been an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute (2017-2019) and recently promoted to Adjunct Research Scholar (2019-2020).

Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics in the Department of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She previously served as the director of the East Asian Studies Program and the co-director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program. She specializes in East Asian political economy, international migration, and comparative racial politics. She has been a Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Program Scholar, an SSRC Abe Fellow at the University of Tokyo and Korea University, an advanced research fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and a Japan Foundation fellow at Saitama University. She also served on the Executive Committee of the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association and is currently co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Elements Social Science Series on the Politics and Society of East Asia. Her first book, Immigration and Citizenship in Japan, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 and translated into Japanese and published by Akashi Shoten in 2012. Her second book, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies, will be published next year by Cambridge University Press. She was recently awarded a five-year grant from the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) to support the completion of her third book project on Citizenship, Social Capital, and Racial Politics in the Korean Diaspora.

http://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/erin-aeran-chung/

Peggy Levitt is the Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and  Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College. She is currently working on three separate but related research strands.  The first concerns the ways in which migration and mobility are transforming social protection.  When large numbers of individuals are long-term residents of countries without full membership, how do they protect and provide for themselves across borders? Her second research area concerns the role of culture, cultural policies, and cultural institutions in creating and (re)creating increasingly diverse nations.  We do not pay enough attention to the cultural dynamics and discourses that influence social and political inclusion. Her last book, Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display, examines how museums around the world shape the relationship between nationalism and cosmopolitanism.  Her current work looks at changing global literary and artistic canons—who gets included, who gets to decide, and whose interests are served.  And finally, addressing cultural inequality requires understanding how knowledge production and dissemination influences what we see and do not see.  Her third research agenda is to establish a network of social scientists, humanists, and practitioners from around the world to create a more inclusive methodological and conceptual tool kit.

In addition to teaching at Wellesley, Peggy is an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University where she co-directs the Politics and Social Change Workshop. She is co-founder of the Global (De) Centre (with Maurice Crul) and a Robert Schuman Fellow at European University Institute (2017-2019). Peggy received honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Maastricht in 2014 and from the University of Helsinki in 2017.

For additional details, see https://www.wellesley.edu/sociology/faculty/levitt