#  Panel (Hybrid): “Immigration, Refugees, and Race in Japan: A Turning Point?” 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 24, 2022** 

 12:00PM - 01:15PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Online and K354, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.**  



 

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 **"Racism and Anti-Racism in Japan: A Comparative Perspective"**  
[Michael Sharpe](https://www.york.cuny.edu/portal_college/msharpe)   
Associate Professor of Political Science, York College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York  
  
**"Japanese Attitudes toward Economic and Humanitarian Migrants"**   
[Nicholas A.R. Fraser](https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/nicholas-fraser)   
Policy Innovations Fellow, Harvard University  
  
Moderator: [Christina L. Davis](https://scholar.harvard.edu/cldavis/home)  
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University  
  
*This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration and the [Harvard Undergraduate Japan Policy Network](https://www.hujpn.org/home).*  
  
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 **Note:** In-person participants can enter the room on first-come, first-served basis, and may be asked to participate online instead if the room is filled to capacity.

##  Additional Resources

1. Michael Orlando Sharpe, ["Shinzo Abe's Death Reveals Complex Story of Discrimination and Xenophobia,"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/27/abe-japan-unification-church-ultranationalism/) The Washington Post, July 27, 2022.
2. James Hollifield and Michael Orlando Sharpe,[ "Japan as 'Emerging Migration State',"](https://doi.org/10.1093/irap/lcx013) *International Relations of the Asia-Pacific* Volume 17 (2017), 371–400.
3. Michael O. Sharpe,[ “Two Sides of a Similar Coin: A New Norm of Constrained Rights or Latecomers to Immigration in East Asia? Commentary on Japan and South Korea,”](https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35326) in *Controlling Immigration* (4th edition), Stanford University Press, 2022.
4. Michael O. Sharpe, *[Postcolonial Citizens and Ethnic Migration: the Netherlands and Japan in the Age of Globalization.](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137270559)* Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
5. Michael O. Sharpe, [ "What Does Blood Membership Mean in Political Terms: The Political Incorporation of Latin American Nikkeijin (Japanese Descendants) in Japan 1990-2004"](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/japanese-journal-of-political-science/article/abs/what-does-blood-membership-mean-in-political-terms-the-political-incorporation-of-latin-american-nikkeijin-japanese-descendants-lan-in-japan-19902004/1485749E93FD1BA28657EEDB2488A113), *Japanese Journal of Political Science*, Volume 12 Issue 1 (Feb. 2011), 113-142.
6. Nicholas A. R. Fraser and John W. Cheng. 2022. [“Do natives prefer white immigrants? Evidence from Japan.”](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2022.2032247?journalCode=rers20) *Ethnic and Racial Studies*, 45(14), 2678-2704.
7. John W. Cheng and Nicholas A. R. Fraser. [“Japanese Newspaper Portrayals of Refugees – a Frame Analysis from 1985 to 2017.”](https://academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jrs/feac007/6552805?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false) *Journal of Refugee Studies,* 2022.
8. Nicholas A. R. Fraser and Go Murakami. 2022. [“The Role of Humanitarianism in Shaping Public Attitudes toward Refugees.”](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12751) *Political Psychology, 43*(2):255-275*.*



 

 



 

 

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