Children of Migration in Asia:
Child Migrants, Border-Crossing Children
Border-Blurred Children© Roengchai Kongmuang

Keynote speakers:
Professor Rhacel S. Parrenas“The Global Inequalities ofReproduction”

Professor Nicola Piper“Migrant Precarity and Displaced
Care at the Intersection of
Temporality and Transnationality“Children” – a key concept meant to describe an analytical framework in whichpeople have contingent ambitions at the cost of the de facto deprivation of awide range of citizens’ rights, at the junction of rich and poor, the privileged anddisadvantaged in a transnational space.
The challenge of this conference is to find an analytical framework that illustrates thecircumstances of the left-behind children of migrant domestic workers, “parachute kids” ofsatellite families, children of multi-cultural or fluid families with multiple affiliations, andinvisible children with refugee/stateless status.
Co-organized byCollege of Sociology, Rikkyo University

Supported by

ILCAA/JSPS Joint Research Project Child Migration in Asia

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS, Grant in A, No. 16H02737)

http://childmigration.aa-ken.jp/

Contact: info_children@rikkyo.ac.jp

9:30–10:00: Opening Speech, Sari Kayoko Ishii
15:00–15:15: Coffee Break
10:00–11:00: Keynote Speech 1, Rhacel S. Parrenas“The Global Inequalities of Reproduction”
Session 3: Transnational Classes 15:15–16:15
11:00–12:00: Keynote Speech 2, Nicola Piper
Johanna Waters (University of Oxford)“Migrant Precarity and Displaced Care at the“Child Migration for Higher Education and Its
Intersection of Temporality andConnotations in Transnationalism in East
Transnationality”
Asia” (tentative)
12:00–13:00: Lunch
Chalermpol Chamchan, Kanya Apipornchaisakul,Kanchana Thianlai (Mahidol University, Thailand)Session 1: Partial Citizenship 13:00–14:00“Access to the Rights of Migrant Children in
Chand Somaiah, Brenda S.A. Yeoh (NationalThailand: The Importance of Social Integration
University of Singapore)and the Role of Civil Society”“Transnational Lives and the Careful Longings
Masako Kudo (Kyoto Women’s University)of Left-Behind Children in Indonesia”“Negotiating Belonging in One’s Own Home:
Cheryll Alipio (York University, Canada)
Japanese Muslim Youth Born to Japanese“The Left-Behind Children of Transnational
Mothers and Pakistani Fathers”
Migrants in the Philippines”
Harriot Bazley (University of the Sunshine Coast)
Session 4: Dehumanized Populations 16:15–17:15“‘I Can’t Do Anything But Wait: The
Misaki Iwai (Kanda University of International
Experiences of ‘Left-Behind’ Children inStudies, Japan)
Lombok, Indonesia”“Citizenship of ‘Children without a Homeland’ in
Session 2: Ubiquitous Borders 14:00–15:00
Vietnam” (tentative)
Hsiao-Chuan
Hsia (Shih Hsin University, Taiwan)
Catherine Allerton (London School of Economics)“Citizenship for Children of Migrant Mothers in“The Everyday Borders of Children of Migrants:
Taiwan” (tentative)
Mapping Migration and Diversity in Sabah,
Isabella Fung (Education University of Hong Kong),
Malaysia”
Ada Lai (Vocational Training Council)
Michelle T.Y. Huang (National Taiwan University)“The Bordered Life of the Stateless Little Ones –“Pregnant Mainland Women and the Cultural
Asylum-Seeker Children in Hong Kong”
Politics of Birthright Citizenship: Towards aFeminist Geopolitics”
Ji-Hye Shin (Yonsei University, South Korea)“The Deportation of Korean Adoptees from theU.S. and the Quest for Citizenship”

17:15–18:00: Open Discussion
18:30–20:00: Welcome Dinner