Co-sponsored Panel: “Immigration, Refugees, and Race in Japan: A Turning Point?”

Date and Time

October 24, 2022
12:00PM - 01:15PM EDT

Location

Online and K354, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.

Weatherhead Program on US-Japan Relations Panel: “Immigration, Refugees, and Race in Japan: A Turning Point?”

"Racism and Anti-Racism in Japan: A Comparative Perspective"
Michael Sharpe 
Associate Professor of Political Science,
York College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

"Japanese Attitudes toward Economic and Humanitarian Migrants"
Nicholas A.R. Fraser 
Policy Innovations Fellow, Harvard University


Moderator: Christina L. Davis
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Undergraduate Japan Policy Network and the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration.

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Note: In-person participants can enter the room on first-come, first-served basis, and may be asked to participate online instead if the room is filled to capacity.