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Labour Migration and Socio-Economic Change


Labour Migration and Socio-Economic Change in Southeast and East Asia. Lund, Sweden, May 14-16, 2001

Sunday, May 13, 2001: Guided tour of Lund
 
Monday, May 14, 2001
09.00 - 09.15 Inauguration
Session One: Domestic and International Migration: Local and (Inter) Regional Trends
09.15 - 10.15 Xavier Oudin - Population Growth and Migration from Rural to Urban Areas - Case Studies from Thailand and Vietnam
Helena Lagercrantz - Who is Who in Shanghai? Inborns and Migrants
Supang Chantavanich - Thai Migrant Workers in East and Southeast Asia: The prospects of Thailand's Migration Policy in the Light of Regional Economic Recession
10.15 - 10.30 Coffee / Tea
10.30 - 11.10 Ching-lung Tsay - Labour Migration and Structural Changes: Outflows of Thai Workers to Taiwan
Bhim Prasad Subedi - International Labour Migration from Nepal: Emerging Trends and Patterns
11.10 - 12.30 Comments by discussants and plenary discussion (Discussant: Tentatively Jan Breman)
12.30 - 14.00 LUNCH
Session Two: Migration in the Grey Zones of Legality
14.00 - 14.40 Sumalee Pitayanon - Migration of Labour into Thailand
Chan Sophal - Cambodia Labour Migration to Thailand
14.40 - 15.00 Plenary Discussion, Introductory comments by Per Ronnås
15.00 - 15.20 Coffee/Tea
Session Three: The Politics of Migration
15.20 - 16.20 Riwanto Tjitrosudarmo - The Politics of Regulating Overseas Labour Migration in Indonesia
  Mathias Diedrich - Change of Government in Indonesia: Its Impact on the Activities of NGOs in the Field of Labour Migration and on the National Discourse of Labour Migration
  Rebecca Elmhirst - Labour Migration, Environment and the Politics of Community in Lampung, South Sumatra
16.20-16.40 Coffee/Tea
16.40-17.30 Comments by Discussant, Plenary Discussion (Discussant: Tentatively Manolo Abela)
 
Tuesday, May 15, 2001
Session Four: Households, Remittances and Return Migration
09.00 - 10.00 J. D. Seddon - Foreign Labour Migration and Remittances: The Case of Nepal
  Mette Thunø - Migration, Labour markets and Household Communities in Fujian Province, China
  Ernst Spaan - Labour Migration in East Java, Indonesia: Pattern Changes and Households
10.00-10.20 Coffee / Tea
10.20 -10.40 Marla Asis - Filippino Women at the Journey's End: Exploring Gender Issues in Return Migration
11.00 - 12.00 Comments by discussant, plenary discussion (Tentative Discussant: Ashwani Saith)
12. 00 - 13.30 LUNCH
Session Five: Issues of Identity
13.30 - 14.30 Yang Baoyun - Chinese Immigrant Labourers and the Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism under French Colonization
Outi Louva - Korean Chinese Labour Migration to South Korea: Questions of Ethnic and National Identity
Josephine Tan Pei & Bobby Chong Thai Wong - 'Race' and 'Ethnicity' in the Discourse of Built Landscape
14.30 - 14.50 Coffee / Tea
14.50 - 15.10 Makato Watanabe - Migrants and Multilingualization: Minorities as a Force of Change in Japan
15.10 - 16.30 Comments by discussant and plenary discussion (Tentative discussant: Nicola Piper)
   
Wednesday, May 16, 2001
Session Six: Regulations and Labour Markets
09.00 - 10.00 Cai Fang - Obstacles Facing Rural Urban Migrants: A Political Economy Tale in Transitional China
Klaus Birk - Migration as State Policy for Poverty Alleviation in China
  Kam Wing Chan - Institutional Barriers and Migrants in Chinese Urban Labour Markets
10.00 - 10.20 Coffee
10.20 - 11.00 Comments by discussant, plenary discussion (Tentative discussant: Michael Schönhals)
Session Seven: Concluding Session
11.00 - 12.00 Summary Discussion

Contact Persons: Dr. Ratna Saptari,
International Institute of Social History Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam
tel. +31-20-66.858.66 fax. +31-30-66.541.81
e-mail: chlia@iisg.nl

 

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