The Japan Immigration Research Group of Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Waseda University invites you to participate in a workshop on:

CRISES AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN JAPAN

Time: 10-12:30 Saturday, July 16, 2011

Place: Room 710, Bldg. 19, Waseda University

(Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies Building)

Access: http://www.waseda.jp/gsaps/info/traffic_en.html

Presenters:

1) Maria Rosario Piquero-Ballescas, Toyo University

Impact of Economic Crisis on Filipino Migrants in Japan
2) Gracia Liu-Farrer, Waseda University Survivors of Economic Depression: The Chinese Migrants in Japan

3) Hirohisa Takenoshita, Shizuoka University Economic crisis and Brazilian immigrants in Japan
4) Edson Urano, University of Tsukuba
The Economic Crisis as an Opportunity for Reflection on the Needs of Transnational Social Agenda: the Case of the Brazilian Migrant Workers in Japan
5) Lucia E. Yamamoto, Shizuoka University The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Brazilian Children's Education in Japan

Chair: Glenda Roberts

Introduction:

The Lehman Shock shook the foreign community in Japan.
In 2009, for the first time in the recent three decades the foreign resident population shrunk in Japan. The Brazilians, losing livelihood in Japan, showed a net loss of over 45,000 people and nearly 15 percent of the previous population. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake gave this community another violent jolt. Tens of thousands of migrants left Japan immediately. If the financial crisis gave economic imperatives for some immigrants to search for alternative strategies to make a living, the earthquake and its aftermath gave existential reasons for many to reconsider their future. This workshop gathers 5 papers on 3 immigrant communities in Japan-the Brazilian, the Filipino, and the Chinese. The papers focus mostly on the impact of economic crisis. The workshop, however, aims to explore more generally the effects of crises and disasters on immigrant communities and their migration process.

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Gracia Liu-Farrer
Ph.D of Sociology
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies
Waseda University
Tokyo, Japan
Tel: 81-3-5286-3932
Fax: 81-3-5272-4533