ILCAA Joint Research Project

Citizenship and Political Participation: Comparative Study of the Influence of Migrants and Refugees on Community Development and Social Welfare (jrp000207)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2014–March, 2017

Many more people migrate crossing borders in the 20th century and they have different types of legal statuses and purposes of movement. They take advantage of different kinds of travel documents and regulations of states for further travels. In this project, we call those people “migrants-refugees” and investigate their influence on the community development and social welfare of the host countries. This is the research project based on the achievement from the former term “Citizenship for Migrants and Refugees: A Comparative Study of Institutions and Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion from Nation-States,” and investigate with specific focus on the political participation of migrants-refugees. How do they commit to social environment surrounding them, and to what extent their existence can affect the social welfare of their residential countries? In order to answer these questions, the study focuses not only on the immigration policy of each country, but also on roles of citizenship as membership of the local communities, and tries multi-dimensional analysis about the issue.

Members

Coordinator

• Aiko NISHIKIDA (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Ikuya TOKORO

Joint Researchers

• Atsusi KONDO
• Kazuyori ITO
• Kenichi YANAI
• Koji HORINUKI
• Mina SAEKI
• Rumiko MURAO
• Shin SUGAWARA
• Shunsuke SHIRAKAWA
• Tadayuki KUBO
• Tien-shi CHEN
• Yuko OSAKADA
• Yuko TOBINAI

Outputs

Meetings

Publication meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 16 Jul 2017 13:00–19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• All members

  Meeting on publication

The 9th meeting

• Date/Time: 22 February 2017 (Wed.) 13:00–19:00
• Venue: Osaka Umeda Campus, Kwansei Gakuin University (19-19 Applause Tower, Chaya-machi, Kita-ku, Osaka)

• All members

  Research meeting for Publication

The 8th meeting

• Date/Time: 29 October 2016 (Sat.) 10:00–19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Tien-shi CHEN (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University)

  “Nationality, Passport and Identity - views from stateless and multinational people”

  Yuko OSAKADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chukyo University)

  “The Right to Work of Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Comparative Study of the Refugee Convention and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”

  All members

  Research meeting for Publication

The 7th meeting

• Date/Time: 10 July 2016 (Sun.) 13:00—17:30
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Tadayuki KUBO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Otsuma Women’s University)

  “Refugees, Civil Society and NGOs: From the perspectives of Burmese Refugees”

  Kenichi YANAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kwansei Gakuin University)

  “Does Magna Carta protect the right to remain homeland?”

  All members

  Research meeting

The 6th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(130KB)

• Date/Time: 2 March 2016 (Wed.) 13:00-17:30
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Masaki MATSUO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Utsunomiya University)

  “A Study of Migration and Polity: from Ethnocracy in the Arab Gulf States to Neo-Plural Society”

  Kazuyori ITO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hokkaido University)

  “The relevance of the right to internal self-determination in facilitating social integration”

  All members

  Research meeting

The 5th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(101KB)

• Date/Time: 5 December 2015 (Sat.) 13:00-17:30
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Shunsuke SHIRAKAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyushu University)

  “A Philosophical Inquiry on Migration: Social Justice, Global Justice, and a Conception of World Order”

  Koji HORINUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, JIME-Center, The Institute of Energy Economics)

  “Illegal Residents and Amnesty Policy in the Gulf states”

  All members

  Research meeting

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: 25 July 2015 (Sat.) 14:10‐17:00 [open], 26 July 2015 (Sun.) 10:00‐15:00 [closed]
• Venue: Maijo University Mei-eki Satellite Office(MSAT) (13F, KDX Nagoya Ekimae Building, 3-26-8, Meieki, Nakamura, Nagoya)
• 25 July [open]
• Symposium “Human Rights and Citizenship of Foreigners”
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Nagoya Association for Multicultural Studies (NAMS)
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Citizenship and Political Participation: Comparative Study of the Influence of Migrants and Refugees on Community Development and Social Welfare”

• Atsushi KONDO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meijo University)

  “The Human Rights of Non-Citizens from the Viewpoints of Constitutional and International Human Rights Laws.”

  Shin SUGAWARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nanzan University)

  “Can Permanent Residents become members of Political Parties ? ― Nationality, Local Election and Right to vote ―”

  Shin MIYAZAKI (Lawyer)

  “Consideration about Residence Permission in Japan which makes the medical treatment reason-from Nagoya High Court's Judgment of 27 June 2013-”

  Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA)

  “A Case Study on Some Problems relating to Transnational Marriage Migrants between Japan and the Philippines (tentative title)”

  Commentator: Kenichi YANAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kwansei Gakuin University)

  Chiarperson: Yuko OSAKADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chukyo University)

• 26 July [closed]

• Aiko NISHIKIDA (ILCAA)

  Introduction

  Maho HADANO (Door to Asylum Nagoya (DAN))

  “Rethinking through commitment to the refugees: symbiosis between refugees and local communities in Tokai area”

  All members

  Lunch & Research Meeting

  Aiko NISHIKIDA (ILCAA)

  “Swedish Active Foreign Policy and Acceptance of Arab Migrants/Refugees”

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(155KB)

• Date/Time: 15 March 2015 (Sun.) 13:00-17:30
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Rumiko MURAO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Rikkyo University)

  “The Mobility and Social Integration in the Post-conflict African village”

  Shin SUGAWARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nagoya City University)

  “Development of Debates on Citizenship in France”

  All members

  Research meeting

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(141KB)

• Date/Time: 25 October 2014 (Sat.) 12:30-17:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Atsushi KONDO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meijo University)

  “Health：2014 MIPEX Japan”

  Mina SAEKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan International Volunteer Center)

  “Afghan Refugees/Returnees : Integration in the host community and Re-integration in the original country”

  All members

  Research meeting

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(120KB)

• Date/Time: 20 July 2014 (Sun.) 13:30-18:30
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• All members

  Introduction

  Yuko TOBINAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “Citizenship of Refugees: Self-governance by South Sudanese in Adjumani District, Uganda.”

  Aiko NISHIKIDA (ILCAA)

  “Political Participation of Palestinan Refugees: Their Citizenship in the Arab Countries”

  All members

  Research meeting

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