Friday, October 18

8:15 a.m.

Participants will be picked-up in the hotel lobby by CCIS staff

8:45-9:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast at the Copley Conference Center foyer

9:15-9:30 a.m.

Welcome and Overview
Gaku Tsuda and Wayne Cornelius

Japan as a Recent Country of Immigration

9:30-10:00 a.m.

Government Policy, Immigrant Reality
Gaku Tsuda (University of California-San Diego)
ttsuda@ucsd.edu

10:00-10:15 a.m.

Discussion

The Demand for Foreign Labor in Japan: Structurally Embedded?

10:15-10:30 a.m.

The Structural Embeddedness of Immigrant Labor
Gaku Tsuda (University of California-San Diego)

10:30-11:00 a.m.

Japan s Immigration Dilemma?
Chikako Usui (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
chikako@umsl.edu

11:00-11:15 a.m.

Discussion

11:15-11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30-12:00 p.m.

Gender, Globalization, and Multicultural Civil Society in Japan
Keiko Yamanaka (University of California-Berkeley)
yamanaka@uclink4.berkeley.edu

12:00-12:15 p.m.

Discussion

12:30-2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00-2:30 p.m.

Looking Outward: Activism for Foreigner Rights in Japan
Amy Gurowitz (University of California-Berkeley)
gurowitz@uclink.berkeley.edu

2:30-2:45 p.m.

Discussion

2:45-3:15 p.m.

Can Migrants be Members? Constraints and Consequences of Local
Citizenship in Japan
Katherine Pak (New College of the University of South Florida)
kpak@virtu.sar.usf.edu

3:15-3:30 p.m.

Discussion

3:30-3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45-4:15 p.m.

Policy Change toward Foreign Residents: Citizen Activism and System Transformation
Deborah Milly (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
djmilly@vt.edu

4:15-4:30 p.m.

Discussion

4:30-5:00 p.m.

To be announced
Terry MacDougall (Stanford University)
macdougall@stanford-jc.or.jp

5:00-5:15 p.m.

Discussion

5:45 p.m.

Dinner for participants (in the Institute of the Americas plaza)

Saturday, May 18

8:15 a.m.

Participants will be picked-up in the hotel lobby by CCIS staff

8:45-9:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast at the Copley Conference Center foyer

Comparative Cases

Korea

9:15-9:45 a.m.

NGOs, Transnational Migrants, and the Promotion of Rights in
South Korea: A Comparative Perspective
Timothy Lim (California State University-Los Angeles)
tclim@calstatela.edu

9:45-10:00 a.m.

Discussion

Spain

10:00-10:30 a.m.

Immigration Policy in Spain: The Relationship between Legal Status,
Rights, and the Social Integration of Immigrants
Francisco Javier Durán (University of Granada, Spain)
fduran@weber.ucsd.edu

10:30-10:45 a.m.

Discussion

10:45-11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00-11:30 a.m.

Spanish Public Opinion
Tomás Calvo Buezas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
tcalvobuezas@cps.ucm.es

11:30-11:45 p.m.

Discussion

11:45-12:15 p.m.

Germany s New Immigration and Integration Policy
Uwe Hunger (University of Muenster, Germany)
hunger@uni-muenster.de

12:15-12:30 p.m.

Discussion

12:30-2:00 p.m.

Lunch