[Euromixproject.rch] Book launch: ‘Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration 19 April 2022 VU University Amsterdam

[Hart, B. de]

Book launch: ‘Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration: Constellations of Security, Citizenship and Rights’
Date: 19 April 2022
Time: 3-5 PM CET (Amsterdam)
Location: Hybrid, HG-0C29 Aurora (VU Amsterdam)

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The Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law<https://acmrl.org/> (VU) and the ACES Migration Network<https://aces.uva.nl/about-aces/fmg-research-priority-area/fmg-theme-groups/aces-migration-network.html#:~:text=The%20ACES%20Migration%20Network%20aims,geography%2C%20planning%20%26%20international%20development.&text=Finally%2C%20we%20aim%20to%20strengthen,of%20migration%20research%20at%20UvA.> (UvA) invite you to the launch of Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration: Constellations of Security, Citizenship and Rights (edited by Anne-Marie D’Aoust). The book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny, and the site of sustained political interventions in several states around the world. Covering cases as varied as the United States, Canada, Japan, Iran, France, Belgium or the Netherlands, among others, the contributors reveal how marriage and partner migration have become battlegrounds for political participation, control, and exclusion. The book was released on February 11th, 2022. For more information on the book, please visit: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/transnational-marriage-and-partner-migration/9781978816701

During this roundtable, the participants listed below will discuss the book’s findings.

Anne-Marie D’Aoust<https://uqam.academia.edu/AnneMarieDAoust> (editor) is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

Anne Balke Staver<https://www.oslomet.no/en/about/employee/annebal/> (discussant) is Researcher at the Oslo Metropolitan University. She holds a PhD in Political Science with a specialization in comparative public policy, focusing on comparing immigration policies in Northern European states.

Saskia Bonjour<https://www.uva.nl/profiel/b/o/s.a.bonjour/s.a.bonjour.html> (contributor and organizer) is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. She co-authored Chapter 2) ‘“A Necessary Evil”? The Problematization of Family Migration in French Parliamentary Debates on Family Migration, 1974–1993’.

Mieke Vandenbroucke<https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/personeel/mieke-vandenbroucke/> (contributor) is Research Professor in Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. She authored Chapter 9) ‘He Said, She Said: The Complexity of Oral Relationship Narratives as Written Factual Evidence in Belgian Marriage Fraud Investigations’.

Betty de Hart<https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/betty-de-hart> (contributor and organizer) is Professor of Transnational Families and Migration Law at VU University  Amsterdam. She authored Chapter 1) ‘The Odd Couple: Gender, Securitization, Europeanization, and Marriages of Convenience in Dutch Family Migration Policies (1930–2020)’.

Laura Odasso<https://lauraodasso.wordpress.com/about/> (contributor) is Researcher in Sociology at the Chaire Migrations et Sociétés, Collège de France, Paris. She co-authored Chapter 8) ‘Intimacy Brokers: The Fragile Boundaries of Activism for Heterosexual and Same-Sex Binational Couples in France’.

Massilia Ourabah<https://biblio.ugent.be/person/802003586915> (contributor) is PhD Researcher in Sociology at the University of Ghent. She co-authored Chapter 2) ‘“A Necessary Evil”? The Problematization of Family Migration in French Parliamentary Debates on Family Migration, 1974–1993.’

Helena Wray<https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/law/staff/wray/> (contributor) is Associate Professor in Migration Law and Director of Research for the University of Exeter Law School. She authored Chapter 4) ‘What Do States Regulate When They Regulate Spousal Migration? A Study of France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Denmark’.

For registration, please send an email to secretariaat.sb.rch at vu.nl <mailto:secretariaat.sb.rch at vu.nl> and indicate whether you would like to attend the event in person or online.


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Van: Hart, B. de <b.de.hart at vu.nl>
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Onderwerp: FW: Roundtable on International Divorce in Japan

An announcment on marriage and migration list may also be of interest to members of this list.

Date and time: February 10, 2022, 09:00-11:00 (Japan standard time)

The rate of divorce for international couples is higher than for endogamous Japanese marriages. Reasons behind international divorces include interpersonal and intercultural issues, which are further complicated by multifaceted structural hardships that spouses and their families face on a daily basis. However, no matter the reason for marriage dissolution, there are many individuals who are affected by marital discord, including spouses, their children and extended family members. Our roundtable will bring together foreign spouses facing divorce, human rights and political activists, as well as scholars working in different areas to stimulate a multilateral and multidisciplinary conversation. We will outline issues that couples face in the process of separation and divorce; discuss the extent to which the state is involved in such private matters as marriage and divorce; and discuss the difficulties international couples face when it comes to divorce procedures, alimony and child support, as well as children’s custody issues. Furthermore, this roundtable will be an opportunity to reflect on the current problems of international divorce and possible solutions.

Our panelists are:
Vincent Fichot and Karina Kakhiani are both parents of children abducted by their spouses. Vincent Fichot has been actively lobbying and advocating to put an end to child abduction in Japan as well as for introducing joint child custody.
Yasuyuki Watanabe holds an M.A. in Law from Keio University and M.A. in International Public Policy from Columbia University. He is a former government official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, visiting professor at the Tama University (Japan).
Jefferson R. Plantilla is a researcher at the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center (HURIGHTS OSAKA). He prepares and writes articles for HURIGHTS OSAKA publications (Human Rights Education in Asia-Pacific, FOCUS Asia-Pacific), leads multi-country research projects on human rights issues in relation to social development, culture, education, law and business.
Allison Alexy is an associate professor at the University of Michigan (USA). Her publications include Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2020). She is currently writing a new book, Family Law in a Family Nation: Parental Abductions and Activism in Contemporary Japan.
Miloš Debnár is a lecturer at the Faculty of International Studies, Ryukoku University (Japan). His main research interest is migration, ethnicity, and race issues regarding contemporary European migration to Japan. He is an author of Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan (Palgrave, 2016).
Aleksandra Babović, an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University. She is an Affiliated Scholar at the Research Institute for Indo-Pacific Affairs. Her research interests include Japan’s foreign policy and security. She is the author of The Tokyo Trial, Justice, and the Postwar International Order (Palgrave, 2019).
Organizer/moderator:
Viktoriya Kim, a specially appointed associate professor at the Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University is a co-author of The Politics of International Marriage in Japan (Rutgers University Press, 2021). She specializes in international marriage migration, multicultural policies, and integration issues of migrants in Japan.

To REGISTER, please click on the following link and fill in the Google form. After you have successfully registered, a link for the zoom webinar will be sent to you.

Registration for Roundtable on International Divorce in Japan<http://shorturl.at/eCQZ6>
(shorturl.at/eCQZ6<http://shorturl.at/eCQZ6>)

With my best regards,
Viktoriya Kim

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Viktoriya KIM (PhD)　
Associate Professor of G30 Human Sciences Program
School of Human Sciences
Osaka University　
e-mail: vkim at hus.osaka-u.ac.jp<mailto:vkim at hus.osaka-u.ac.jp>


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