JaCMES – LERC - KKLO Joint Roundtable
Migrants and Refugees Dynamics and Perception toward their Integration
Date:

Wednesday 28 November 2018 from 14:00-18:00

Venue:JaCMES (Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies), 2nd Floor, Azarieh Building, A2-1, Bashura,
Emir Bashir Street, Beirut, Lebanon

Time Table:

Each presentation is 20 min. followed by discussion 20 min.

14:00-14:40

Dr. Maria Bou Zeid, Chairperson of NDU Department of Media Studies“Media coverage of forced migration between utopia and pragmatism”

14:40-15:20

Dr. Guita Hourani, Director of NDU Lebanese Research Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies(LERC)“Why Lebanon Disapprove of any Form of "Asylum ”

15:20-15:40

Recess

15:40-16:20

Dr. Chen Tien-Shi, Professor of Waseda University“Historical Transformation and Integration of Chines Diaspora in Japan: Case of Yokohama
Chinatown ”

16:20-17:00

Dr. Ikuya Tokoro, Professor of Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa,
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

17:00-18:00“De-centralizing Cross-Border Migration Flows in Asia（TBC）”
General Discussion and Closing

DiscussantsDr. Kenichi Yanai, Professor, Kwansei Gakuin Univesity
Dr. Yuko Tobinai, Associate Professor, Morioka University

Chair:

Dr. Aiko Nishikida Director of Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES)
Associate Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo
University of Foreign Studies

Concept:

This activity to look anew at the current dynamics of migrant and refugees and perception toward
their integration in some Asian countries. Migration & refugee flow have characterized Asian lives
and livelihoods in different ways particularly in the last decades as mobility increased worldwide;
they have affected employment, citizens-refugees relations, media perception, naturalization,international relations, settlement patterns, etc. This mobility be it forced or voluntary has shaped
and changed the composition of Asian societies and given rise to complex problems andopportunities. Speakers will address a wide range of sub-disciplines of social sciences including
communication, political science, human geography, and anthropology.

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JaCMES – LERC - KKLO Joint Roundtable
Migrants and Refugees Dynamics and Perception toward their Integration
BIOGRAPHIES
Presenter

Dr. Maria Bou Zeid, Chairperson of NDU Department of Media Studies
Bou Zeid is an Assistant Professor and the Chairperson of the Department of MediaStudies at Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU). She is also the Executive Director ofthe Arab Studies Institute (ASI) - Beirut Office. She holds a Doctorate in Media Studies
from Université Paris II, Assas, Paris, France and a D.E.S. in Journalism from the Lebanese
University in collaboration with the French Press Institute-IFP and the Center for theFormation and Perfecting of Journalists-CFPJ, Paris, France. She has also an extensive
professional experience in the field of television production and broadcast journalism. She
was recently selected as the key note speaker of the 47èmes assises de la presse francophonethat will take place in Yerevan-Tsaghkadzor on October 8, 2018.

Presenter

Dr. Guita Hourani, Director of NDU Lebanese Research Center for Migration andDiaspora Studies (LERC), Co-Organizer of the Roundtable
Dr. Hourani is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Lebanese Center for Migration
and Diaspora Studies at the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLPS) at Notre Dame
University-Louaize (NDU), Lebanon. She has a Ph.D. from Tokyo University of ForeignStudies (TUFS), Tokyo, Japan. She is presently Country of Origin Information Expert onLebanon for the Fahamu Refugee Programme, Oxford, England; Board Member of theBeirut Economics Congress, of the Lebanese International University, Lebanon; SeniorResearch Affiliate at the Department of Christian Oriental and Byzantine Studies of theOrient Institute, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; Joint Researcherwith the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at TUFS;
Expert on Citizenship with the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship,Italy.

Presenter

Dr. Chen Tien-Shi, Professor of Waseda University
Dr. Lara, CHEN Tien-shi is a Professor of Waseda University. She received her Ph.D. fromUniversity of Tsukuba in 2000. Sher undertook research at Chinese University of HongKong (1994-1995), Harvard University (1997-2000) and conducted postdoctoral studies atthe University of Tokyo (2000-2003). She organized numerous events, talks and exhibitions
while she was working as an associate professor in National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka(2003-2013). She started teaching at Waseda University since 2013. Her research topics

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include Chinese diaspora, statelessness and migration. She also founded the NGO group
Stateless Network in 2009 to advocate and support stateless issues. Her publications include:"Chinese Diaspora-Business Network and Identities of Chinese Entrepreneurs." (Akashi Shoten);"Stateless" (Shincho Bunko); "Forgotten people- Stateless people in Japan" (Akashi Shoten);"Passportology" (Hokkaidou University Press).
Presenter

Dr. Ikuya Tokoro, Professor of Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia andAfrica, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Dr. Ikuya TOKORO is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Research Institute forLanguages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies(TUFS). He obtained Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. His main research field includes
the maritime world of Southeast Asia (especially in Malaysia and the Philippines),
migration studies, material culture studies, and so on. His publications include: Ikuya
TOKORO & Hisao TOMIZAWA (eds.) Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (Vol.2):
Perspectives from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia. Tokyo: ResearchInstitute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), 2018.

Discussant

Dr. Kenichi Yanai, Professor, Kwansei Gakuin Univesity
Dr. Kenichi YANAI is a Professor of Constitutional Law and Deputy Dean of Faculty andLaw and Politics, Kwansei-Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan. He has a LL.D. from Waseda
University, Tokyo, Japan. He is a public lawyer especially majoring in Nationality Law. He
also studies British Constitution and had been a visiting research fellow of School of Law,
King’s college London.

Discussant

Dr. Yuko Tobinai, Associate Professor, Morioka University
Dr. Yuko TOBINAI is an Associate Professor, faculty of Humanities at Morioka University,Iwate, Japan. She has a Ph.D. from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. Her major isanthropology and area studies. She has expertise in migration, Christianity, East Africa(especially the two Sudans and Uganda). Recently, she has conducted the research about
Christian revival movement among South Sudanese in Uganda.

ChairDr. Aiko Nishikida Director of Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES),
Associate Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa,
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Organizer of the Roundtable
Dr. Aiko NISHIKIDA is an Associate professor of Palestine Studies at Research Institutefor Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her
primarily research topic is Palestinian refugees and investigates their rights and citizenship.
These days she focuses on Arab migrants-refugees including Syrians, Iraqis and Palestinians
in EU countries. Currently she is a visiting scholar of Berliner Institut für empirische
Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin andconducting her research in Germany.

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ORGANIZERS AND SPONSORS
Organizers- Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures ofAsia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan-Lebanese Research Center for Migration
University-Louaize (NDU), LebanonandDiasporaStudies(LERC),NotreDame-Kota Kinabalu Liaison Office (KKLO), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia andAfrica, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, JapanSponsors- Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of ForeignStudies, Japan-Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant
Number 17H04504