Japan’s Immigration Policy Conundrum: Technical Interns, Specified Skills, and International Students

Japan’s Immigration Policy Conundrum

April 11, 2023

Speaker photosApril 11, 2023 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM | Online - Zoom Webinar

Speakers: Glenda S. Roberts, Professor, Waseda University;
Noriko Fujita, Adjunct Researcher, Waseda Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies;
Gracia Liu-Farrer, Professor, Waseda University

Discussant: Michael Sharpe, Professor, York College of the City University of New York

Moderator: Keiko Yamanaka, Lecturer, UC Berkeley

Glenda S. Roberts and Noriko Fujita
Is ‘Short-term’ for the long run? Is ‘skilled’ really skilled? Japan’s convoluted short-term labor migration schemes

Gracia Liu-Farrer
The student-workers: Four decades of international student migration in Japan

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