SOSS Seminar | Migration, Education, and Cultural Capital in the Post-Pandemic World

The COVID-19 pandemic halted educational migration that had been rapidly growing since the 2000s. Although countries around the world are now opening their borders to migrants, the landscape of educational migration seems to have fundamentally changed by tighter border controls, growing geopolitical tensions, accelerating digital connectivity, and other pandemic-related developments counteracting physical mobility. To explore this changing landscape, guest speaker Hiroki Igarashi will first present his ongoing research on Japanese migrant families in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and their educational strategies for accumulating cultural capital for their children across national borders. Then, SMU faculty members Alwyn Lim, Yasmin Ortiga, and Orlando Woods will comment on the guest speaker's presentation to share their multi-disciplinary and international perspectives on the intersection of migration, education, and cultural capital in the post-pandemic world.

14 SEPTEMBER 2022 WEDNESDAY 3.30PM - 5.00PM (SGT)

HYBRID EVENT Yong Pung How School of Law Seminar Room 2-2 Zoom details will be sent to all registrants.

SPEAKER
Hiroki Igarashi
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Chiba University
Hiroki Igarashi is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies at Chiba University, Japan. His research interests are in the fields of social stratification, education, gender, and cosmopolitanism. He is currently exploring the trend of "education migration"of affluent Japanese families in Southeast Asia.

MODERATOR
Hiro Saito
Associate Professor of Sociology, SMU
Hiro Saito is Associate Professor of Sociology at SMU School of Social Sciences and Director of Holistic Education Lab. Drawing on his training in social science, mindfulness practice, and design thinking, he is currently pursuing educational innovations to help people of all ages increase the wellness of their bodies, hearts, minds, and souls, so that they can become a force of collective well-being.

DISCUSSANTS
Alwyn Lim
Associate Professor of Sociology, SMU
Lee Kong Chian Fellow
Alwyn Lim is Associate Professor of Sociology at SMU School of Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian Fellow for 2022-2024. His research examines the impact of globalization on organizations and institutions, of which he has published on the rise and diffusion of corporate responsibility frameworks. His current interests include new directions in capitalism, higher education in developmental states, and the political economy of Singapore.

Yasmin Ortiga
Assistant Professor of Sociology, SMU
Yasmin Y. Ortiga is Assistant Professor of Sociology at SMU School of Social Sciences. She studies how the social construction of "skill" shapes people's migration trajectories, changing institutions within both the countries that send migrants, as well as those that receive them. Her work has also been published in Global Networks, International Migration Review, and Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Orlando Woods
Associate Professor of Geography, SMU
Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate Programmes)
Lee Kong Chian Fellow
Orlando Woods is Associate Professor of Geography and Lee Kong Chian Fellow at SMU College of Integrative Studies, where he also serves as Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate Programmes). His research interests span religion, digital transformation and infrastructure development in South and Southeast Asian cities.

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