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February 5, 2026
Lecture: Kristin Surak " (Temple University, Japan Campus, 2/25 (W) 18:00-19:30, in person only)
Dear colleagues,
Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) is honored to host the Inaugural Mosse Lecture in Tokyo, Japan, to be given by Prof Kristin Surak (London School of Economics), a leading expert on elite mobility, international migration, nationalism, and Japanese politics. The talk will be held on February 25 (W) 18:00-19:00 (in person only). All are welcome, and no registration is required.
Migration in the 21st Century: What Elite Mobility Reveals About the Present and Future of International Migration
The study of human migration has traditionally focused on less powerful and possibly vulnerable populations such as refugees, labor migrants, marriage migrants, and others. However, elites are highly mobile too - and are perhaps the global movers par excellence. How does the study of the wealthy upend our basic assumptions about global migration? This talk draws on over a decade of fieldwork in more than twenty countries to expose the dynamics of elite mobility. Extending from the book The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires, it cracks open the global market around the sale of citizenship to the rich buyers to reveal an unexpected story about rights, identity, and inequality. Indeed, traveling the world of golden passports challenges us to reconsider our fundamental assumptions about mobility, membership, and globalization and suggests how our own futures may be reconfigured.
Speaker: Kristin Surak (Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics)
Date & Time: Wednesday, February 25th, 2025 18:00-19:30
Venue (in-person only): Temple University, Japan Campus (1F Parliament ) Access 1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya-ku Tokyo 154-0004
Registration: Attendance is free and no registration is necessary
Language: English (without interpretation)
More Information: https://www.tuj.
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