開催案内（会員・一般）：7/3 6PM＠上智 ハイブリッドセミナー Bordered Lives

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In-person and ZOOM webinar hybrid seminar
Bordered Lives: Migrants, Refugees, and Gendered Exclusion in East Asia Perspectives from Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan

Date & Time: 3 July 2026 (Fri) 18:00-20:00
Venue: #410, Building No.2, Sophia University (no registration required)
online: Join the ZOOM webinar through URL: https://x.gd/rWHCZ
Passcode: 20260703

Language: English
Target audience: Students and General public
Admission: Free

Program
1. Living Without Protection: Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Hong Kong
Dr.Isabella Ng (The Education University of Hong Kong)

2. Behind the Walls of Protection: Intersectional Analysis of Migrant Detention and Gendered Exclusion in South Korea
Dr.Ajung Sim (Network for the Action against Immigration Detention)

3. Trying to Belong: Sri Lankan Women Migrants in Japan
Kirara Biyanwila (University of Tokyo)

Moderator: Masako Tanaka, Professor, Faculty of Global Studies and Institute Fellow, IAAMES, Sophia University

Organizer: Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University (IAAMES)
Co-organiser: JSPS “Reproductive justice for migrant women: Eliminating restrictions on pregnancy and childbirth through reinforcing the rule of law”

This program brings together researchers and practitioners working on migration, asylum, detention, gender, and racialization in East Asia. Focusing on Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan, the three presentations examine how migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers experience exclusion not only at national borders, but also in everyday life, family relations, institutions, and local communities.
Through cases of asylum seekers and refugees in Hong Kong, migrant detention and border control in South Korea, and Sri Lankan migrants’ experiences of belonging and othering in Japan, the program asks how “borders” continue to shape people’s lives after they have crossed them. It also explores how gender, race, legal status, and social class intersect to produce different forms of vulnerability and resistance.
By placing these three contexts in conversation, the program aims to deepen our understanding of migration governance in East Asia and to open a dialogue on dignity, care, protection, and justice for people living across borders.

https://dept.sophia.ac.jp/is/iac/news/docs/news20260528_633141014.html

Contact: IAAMES
TEL：03-3238-3697 FAX:03-3238-3690
EMAIL: i-asianc[at]sophia.ac.jp
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