Comparing 'Late-Comer' Immigration Countries: Japan and Italy

Dahrendorf Room, Founders' Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford

Saturday 4th June 2011

9.00 am
Arrival and coffee
9.30-11.00 am
Policy
Japan
Yamawaki Keizo, Meiji University
Japanese Migrant Integration Policy at the Crossroads Italy Maurizio Ambrosini, University of Milan Immigration in Italy: Between Economic Acceptance and Political Rejection
Discussant: Paola Mattei, University of Oxford 11.00 am Coffee
11.15-11.45 am
Comparative Dimensions
Jacqueline Andall, University of Bath
Work and Settlement in Japan and Italy
11.45am -1.15 pm
Identities
Italy
Eva Garau, University of Sardinia
The Northern League's discourse on identity and
otherness: a new model of institutionalised exclusion Japan Kristin Surak, European University Institute, Florence City and State in the Politics of Integration
Discussant: Abe Atsuko, Oxford/Oberlin University
1.15-2.15 pm
Lunch
2.15-3.45 pm
Gender
Italy
Isabel Crowhurst, Birkbeck College, London University Punitivism, state violence and anti-immigration:
exploring the regulation of prostitution in contemporary Italy Japan Gabriele Vogt, University of Hamburg Ethnicity and Gender in Japan's Health-Care Business
Discussant: Anthony Fielding, Sussex University
3.45 pm
Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.30 pm
Comparative Dimensions
Round table discussion led by Jacqueline Andall 5.30 pm Drinks reception: hosted by Italian Studies at Oxford 7.00 pm Dinner for Speakers and invited guests

The workshop is free and open to the public but space is limited and all those who wish to participate in the workshop and attend the reception must register with Miss Jane Baker (jane.baker@nissan.ox.ac.uk; Tel:
01865-274570) by 31st May at the latest.

We are grateful to the Oxford Sasakawa Committee, the Asian Studies Centre, the European Studies Centre, the Nissan Institute, Italian Studies at Oxford and the Governance, Citizenship and Policy cluster, Department of European Studies, University of Bath for their financial support of the workshop