Estimated studying time: 3 minutes. Picture by ArtHouse Studio @Pexels.

Apologies that this put up comes so last-minute. I solely simply found I used to be free, and my coverage with Zoom lectures is simply to announce these I can attend myself. If I didn’t, this weblog could be overwhelmed, turning right into a lighter model of the Korean Research Occasions Database!

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The primary lecture, from 3:30–5:00 pm (all Korean time), is:

“Doing Ethnography within the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Intercourse Staff in Yokohama: Sensuous Remembering” by Ayaka Yoshimize, writer of a ebook of the identical title. From the occasion web page:

(Zoom participation: Pre-registration isn’t required. Please login with the Zoom Assembly ID: 923 4787 3527 and Passcode: KUMMC.)

This presentation displays on the politics, poetics, and ethics of remembering the lives of migrant intercourse employees in a diasporic metropolis of Yokohama, Japan. Drawing on her performative sensory ethnography, Yoshimizu will deal with the transnational area of mizushobai (water commerce) in Yokohama’s traditionally marginalized neighbourhoods alongside the Ōoka River, the place sexual providers have been carried out by racialized migrant girls. Since 2005 town has sought to rebrand one in all these neighbourhoods, Koganecho, evicting transnational migrant intercourse employees who had been integral to postindustrial improvement and erasing their previous presence. Yoshimizu examines Yokohama’s dominant memoryscapes within the aftermath of displacement, analyzing the constructed setting, official historic narratives, movies, and photographic works that obscure racialized migrants’ participation within the metropolis’s place-making. She then seeks to create an alternate memoryscape based mostly on her personal fieldwork expertise of turning into entangled with the native social relations, unexpectedly coming to carry out social roles legible within the area, and, in the end, having her relationship with town refashioned anew. Yoshimizu writes the choice memoryscape by the imagery of water in methods which are knowledgeable by the native utilization and imaginations—the ocean, flowing rivers, swamps, humidity, alcohol, the fluidity of relationships, and transient lives. This speak will finish by introducing her present multi-sited analysis on transpacific recollections of karayuki-san in Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Western Canada.

Then instantly after, beginning at 5pm:

“Present standing and coverage response to migrant integration and multiculturalism in Korea” by Prof. In-Jin Yoon” (Korea College)

Additionally from the occasion web page (however please observe the pre-registration hyperlink there may be mistaken; as an alternative, go to https://uni-due.zoom.us/assembly/register/u50qdeCgqToqHtePLf6_S_NppjpA9Wk6vica#/registration):

The present standing of migrant integration in Korea appears to be removed from preferrred. The human rights violations towards migrants stay frequent within the office and on a regular basis life. The general public’s notion and attitudes towards migrants have modified from paternalism to apathy, and is deteriorating to the extent of hatred towards sure teams. Korean adults’ multicultural acceptance elevated from 2010 to 2015, however has continued to say no since then. The extent of social integration of migrant employees and married immigrant girls, that are consultant teams of migrants in Korea, isn’t excessive in each materials and psychological points. Migrant employees have a excessive employment price, however they work lengthy hours in low-skilled, low-wage work, are uncovered to non-payment or delayed fee of wages and bodily and verbal violence, and their labor rights are vastly restricted. They can’t carry their households, and their alternatives to accumulate everlasting residency and nationality are vastly restricted, so they aren’t topic to social integration. Marriage migrant girls are inclined to have low employment charges, employment stability, and earnings on account of their low age and training degree, capacity to grasp Korean language and tradition, the big age and cultural hole with their husbands, and the burden of childbirth and childcare. They’re additionally depending on their husbands as a result of they want their consent when making use of for everlasting residency and nationality. The language and tradition of their house nation should not revered and they’re below robust strain to assimilate into Korean tradition.

See you there!

Should you reside in South Korea, you’ll be able to donate by way of wire switch: Turnbull James Edward (Kookmin Financial institution/국민은행, 563401-01-214324)

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