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CSEAS Brown Bag
Migrant Workers: Transnational Movement between Japan and Southeast Asia
by Professor Mako Yoshimura
Hosei University, Japan
 With the globalization of world economies,
international migration has increased. Japan, however, is still considered
a closed country when compared with other industrialized countries that accept
unskilled migrant worker, immigrants, refugees, and so on.
In a seven-year period, Japan and several
Southeast Asian countries signed the Economic
Partnership Agreements (EPAs).
Significantly, the EPAs with the Philippines,
Indonesia and Thailand include
a section devoted to "the Movement of Natural Persons." The presentation will
examine Japanese policy on migrant workers compared with that of several
Southeast Asian countries (i.e. Malaysia,
the Philippines, etc.) and
discuss the movement of people between Japan
and Southeast Asia, including recent EPAs with
Southeast Asian countries.
Mako Yoshimura (PhD, University of Tokyo)
is Professor at Hosei University, Japan. She researches on economic development and labor
migration in Asia (especially, Malaysia/Japan). She also serves as an
Exco member (International Relations) for the Japan Society for Southeast Asian
Studies.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Tokioka room, Moore Hall 319
University of Hawaii at Manoa.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii.
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Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance
An Interdisciplinary Seminar
PLAN 670, Fall 2008
Wednesdays, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
This course will be provided by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii-Manoa in the Fall semester 2008. At least 25% of the content and coverage of this course will be on Southeast Asia. For more information, contact Professor Robert Egan at <jregan@hawaii.edu>
more info
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SEA Books
Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O'Brien, Butler
By Tobey Herzog
Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2008, 240 pp.
more info
 Creating "Greater Malaysia": Decolonization and the Politics of Merger
By Tai Yong Tan
Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008, 224 pp.
more info
 The shape of the World to Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century
By Laurent Cohen-Tanugi
New York, Columbia University Press, 2008, 152 pp.
more info
Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific: Method, Practice, Theory
By Kathy Ferguson and Monique Mironesco (Editors)
Honolulu, University of Hawaii
Press, 2008, 432 pp.
more info
For ordering information, contact the publishers or the Asian Experts at asiabook@gil.com.au
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SEA Film Series
We
had a successful year in which we screened 35 films in our weekly
Wednesday series. We look forward to an exciting slate of films beginning in
September, 2008. See you at the movies!
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