14 Disasters and Social Justice for Migrants

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
OB 307 (Faculty of Economics)

RC31 Sociology of Migration (host committee)

Language: English
Session Organizers:
Mari SHIBA, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan , Hideki TARUMOTO, Hokkaido University, Japan and Kazuhisa NISHIHARA, Seijo University, Japan
Co-chairs:
Kazuhisa NISHIHARA, Seijo University, Japan , Hideki TARUMOTO, Hokkaido University, Japan and Mari SHIBA, Nagoya University, Japan
Survivors and migrants: A dialogue between disaster and migration in light of the case of Haitians in Brazil (Oral Presentation)
Claudia ANJOS, Universidade de Brasilia - UnB, Brazil

Whether to remain in Japan or not: Inner conflict of foreigners after the occurrence of the great east Japan earthquake (Oral Presentation)
Kihwan KWAK, Faculty of Economics/Tohoku-Gakuin University, Japan

Multicultural communities in a global age: What the 311 taught us and beyond (Oral Presentation)
Kazuhisa HONDA, Tokai University, Japan

The great eastern Japan earthquake and prejudice toward foreigners (Oral Presentation)
Myungsoo KIM, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

Rebuilding the life after disaster: The case studies of immigrant women in Tohoku
Kumiko TSUCHIDA, Tohoku University, Japan; Sunhee LEE, Tohoku University, Japan