The overall aim of the project is to create a sustainable network of social science, arts and humanities academics to undertake comparative research exploring old and new migrations and diversifications in the UK and Japan.

Objectives include:

• To establish a sustainable academic research network using the Institute for Research into Superdiversity and the Institute for Asian Migration as hubs for comparative research activity.
• To bring new perspectives to the study of migrations and diversifications from the UK and Japan.
• To exchange knowledge about research practice and research focus in the fields of migration and diversification.
• To develop greater levels of understanding about the similarities and differences in the UK and Japan's migration and diversification contexts including around migration and integration policy and practice, history, and discourse.
• To identify and develop key themes that would benefit from a comparative focus.
• To develop new methods and conceptual frameworks for researching and comparing migrations and diversifications in the UK and Japan.
• To support a series of new and sustainable collaborations between UK and Japanese academic experts in the fields of migration and superdiversity studies.
• To promote the mobility of, and support comparative research by, early career academics in the UK and Japan.
• To offer mentorship to early career academics in undertaking comparative research in different migration contexts.

Upcoming Events: 

UK/Japan Migration Workshop, Brussels, June 2019. 
Presentations on:

• Immigration history
• Economy
• Societal responses and outlooks
• Politics and policy
• Literature and discourse 

In the context of both countries. 

UK/Japan Migration five day Symposium, December 2019.
Keynote lectures, plenaries, workshops, field-trips, literature readings and masterclasses to share existing knowledge and develop new comparative ways of thinking about migration and diversity in the UK and Japan.  Joint publications on the main themes of the collaboration will be developed over the course of the network activities.

Principal investigator

Professor Jenny Phillimore (University of Birmingham)

Co-investigators

Professor Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University)
Professor Glenda Roberts (Waseda University)
Dr Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham)

Core Research Team

University of Birmingham

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge 
Dr Laurence Lessard-Phillips 
Dr Ceren Ozgen 
Dr Natalia Vershinina 
Dr Rachel Humphris 
Dr Irina Kuznetsova 

Waseda University

Professor Yasushi Katsuma 
Professor Haysae Shinzo 
Dr Helena Hof 
Professor Kazuo Kuroda 
Assistant Professor Hidetaka Hirota 

This is an open call for papers for the New and old migrations and diversities in UK and Japan symposium to be held at Waseda University, Tokyo on 2-4^th December 2019. The aim of the symposium is to bring UK and Japan-based academics together to develop some comparative papers around the above themes. Applicants should be aware that only papers focusing on the UK and/or Japan will be considered.

To apply, please submit in English, a one page CV with an abstract of 300-500 words summarising your argument, methods and empirical basis. We welcome submissions from across the social sciences, arts and humanities. All applications must be submitted by 31 August 2019 to Ann Bolstridge a.bolstridge@bham.ac.uk.  

For full information regarding this call for papers, read: NODE International Symposium Call for Papers