• Date: October 27th, Friday, 2023, 15:00 – 17:00
• Online via Zoom [in English]

Speaker: Pei-Chia Lan (Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University)

Prof. Pei-Chia Lan is one of the major scholars who has presented global research achievements in migration studies and has explored the influence of migration on East Asian social changes in the contexts of Asian developmentalism, globalization, and diaspora. In this colloquium, we will examine the social construction and context-dependency of ‘skills’, which is rising as the most controversial topic in recent migration studies, with case studies of Taiwan and Japan’s migration care work institutions. Taiwan and Japan are Asian countries that have experienced extremely low birth rates and regional fall in population and are attempting to overcome the regional reproduction crisis through immigration policy. They will have meaningful implications for Korean society, where immigration policy for ameliorating low birth rates and regional decline in population is introduced in the forms of region-specialized visas, and a foreign domestic worker system. In Korean society, which is at the crossroads of shifting into a full-fledged migrant society, migration governance and regional development are issues to be considered with care in future urban planning. This colloquium was organized as a field of seeking how these issues should be accepted in terms of policy and academic studies.