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October 24, 2012

[SSJ: 7799] Shaken Workshop on labor immigration policy--November 1

From: John Campbell
Date: 2012/10/24

Greetings! You are invited to the next session of the Todai ISS social science dissertation workshop, which will be on November 1, back in our usual space.* Presenting will be Konrad Kalicki. He is working on a PhD in comparative politics with Yves Tiberghien at the University of British Columbia and is currently at Shaken. His topic is labor importation policies in East Asia. In the past two decades, due to structural pressures, Japan, Korea and Taiwan have been increasingly forced to supplement their labor force with foreign workers. However, the three countries have adopted divergent mechanisms for admitting unskilled/low-skilled foreign laborers.

Konrad takes a broadly "statist" approach to explaining the differences. He hypothesizes that preferences and autonomous interests of the state are key determinants of labor importation policy. More specifically, he proposes disintegrating the state into competing bureaucratic agencies, examining their autonomous goals, and figuring out how these interests are mitigated by the institutional structures of policy-making. His project is still at an early stage, and I'm confident he will welcome hearing about alternative explanations as well as suggestions for developing his ideas.

As usual, I appreciate hearing about whether you are coming.

jc

*Meetings of the Shaken Social Science Dissertation Workshop start at 12 pm on Thursdays and go to 1:30 and sometimes beyond. The Institute of Social Science provides coffee and tea and you are welcome to bring lunch. The location is a seminar room on the 5th floor in the Akamon General Research (Sougou Kenkyuu) Building. The building is down a little passage to the right after you come through Akamon, or you can go through the grounds of Ito Hall off Hongou Douri. It is Bldg 38 on this map:

http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/documents/Hongo_Campu
sMap_E.pdf

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