연사: Tessa Morri-Suzuki (호주 국립대)

주최 : 고려대 아세아문제연구소, 고려대 국제대학원 

Issues of immigration and the rights of foreigners in Japan have been the focus of much debate in recent years. On the one hand, the spectre of falling birth-rates and declining population have encouraged some far reaching proposals to open Japanese society to much larger flows of immigration. On the other, the current economic crisis and rising unemployment have been accompanied by growing signs of unease about the presence of foreign workers in Japan. Meanwhile, Japan has begun very cautiously to increase its acceptance of asylum seekers, and has quietly allowed the resettlement on its shores of almost 200 “returnee-refugees” from North Korea. In this paper, I shall argue that current debates about immigration, refugees and foreign residents in Japan cannot be understood without tracing a process of repeated border crossings that goes back to the days of the prewar Japanese empire.

Tessa Morris-Suzuki, BA (Hons) (Bristol), PhD (Bath),

FAHA Professor of Japanese History, School of Culture, History & Language

Email: tessa.morris-suzuki@anu.edu.au

Biographical statement

I am currently engaged in a two joint ARC discovery projects, one on humanitarian action in mid-20th century Asia and the Pacific, and one on conflict and reconciliation between Japan, China and the two Koreas. I also have a major research interest in migration and refugee issues in Northeast Asia, and am completing a book on border controls and migration in Japan in the period 1945-85. I convene the Asian Civil Rights Network (funded by the Toyota Foundation), and co-edit the network's online journal Asiarights. My most recent books include Exodus to North Korea, a study of the mass migration of ethnic Koreans from Japan to North Korea in the Cold War era, The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History, which discusses the representation of history in varied popular media, and an eight-volume history of the Asia-Pacific War, of which I am co-editor, published in Japanese by Iwanami Publishers, 2005-2006.

Research interests

The border controls and migration in East Asia; national identity and ethnic minorities in Japan; modern Japanese historiography; human rights in Asia; globalisation processes (with particular reference to Northeast Asia); the history of indigenous peoples in Northeast Asia.

Key publications

Tennô to Amerika (The Emperor and America, coauthored), Shûeisha, 2010

Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era, Cambridge University Press, 2010

To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred Year Journey Through China and Korea, Rowman and Littlefield, 2010 (forthcoming)

Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation and Democracy in Japan, Kegan Paul International, 1988.

The Technological Transformation of Japan, Cambridge University Press, 1994. (also published in Chinese and Korean translations)

Re-Inventing Japan: Time Space, Nation, M.E. Sharpe, 1998. (also published in Spanish translation)

Demokurashii no Bôken (Ventures in Democracy, co-authored), Shûeisha, 2004.

The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History, Verso, 2005. (also published in Japanese translation)

Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. (also published in Japanese translation)

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