Speaker:
- Megha Wadhwa (Temple University, Japan Campus)
Moderator:
- Kyle Cleveland, ICAS Co-Director
Date: Thursday, November 28, 2024 6:30 PM - Thursday, November 28, 2024 8:00 PM
Location: Temple University, Japan Campus, 1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 154-0004
Overview
This talk will look into the contemporary migration trends of Indians to Japan, focusing on the factors influencing their migration and settlement patterns. As of December 2023, the population of Indians in Japan was recorded at 48,835 according to the Immigration Services Agency. With Japan's ageing population creating a demand for migrants and the country increasingly looking to India to fulfill this need, this study asks whether Indians are also looking towards opportunities in Japan or choosing to go back to ‘booming’ India.
The talk will explore the dynamics of who migrates, who stays, and who returns, and the underlying reasons for these choices. It will also look into whether government policies, including recent changes in visa regulations, significantly impact these migration trends. The research investigates these three aspects of migration by analysing narratives from around 56 Indians in Japan whom the speaker has been following since 2007, 2013, and 2021 – long stayers and new migrants in Japan, and returnees in India.
Date & Time:
Thursday, November 28, 2024 18:30
Venue:
Temple University, Japan Campus Room 611 (Access)
Registration:
Please register using the following link: REGISTER HERE
This event is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS).
Note: All ICAS events are held in English, open to the public, and admission is free unless otherwise noted.
Speaker:
Megha Wadhwa
Temple University, Japan Campus
Megha Wadhwa is an anthropologist, filmmaker, and writer based at the Free University of Berlin's Japanese Studies department. She is an adjunct assistant professor at Temple University Japan. She is also a visiting scholar at Sophia University Tokyo. She the author of the book ‘Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious and Working Worlds’ (Routledge:2021) . She has also written several articles on the Indian community in Japan and other topics for The Japan Times and various journals. She is trained in fieldwork filming, and her films include “Daughters from Afghanistan” (2019), “Indian cooks in Japan” (2020) and “Finding their niche: Unheard stories of migrant women” (2022) . Her current research looks into migration trends of Indians in Japan, Singapore and beyond.
Moderator:
Kyle Cleveland
ICAS Co-director
Kyle Cleveland is the co-director of ICAS and associate professor of Sociology at Temple University, Japan Campus. His expertise ranges from political and theoretical sociology to race and ethnicity, popular culture and ideology.