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Members of the project (from left to right): Dr. Aimi Muranaka , Dr. Helena Hof, Dr. Ruth Achenbach , Dr. Megha Wadhwa and Dr. Joohyun Justine Park; Fotograf/courtesy of: M. Wadhwa |
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We are pleased to announce that the website of the new project Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia"Qualification" in the migration process of foreign skilled workers in Asia is now live! At you will find up-to-date information on our work on qualified migration in Asia, including lecture series, publications, movies... QuaMaFA is a joint research project of the IZO of the 51猎奇 Frankfurt in cooperation with the FU Berlin and the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity! |
Current Research
Citation:
Zhiyi Yang. 鈥淭he Memory of an Assassin and Problems of Legitimacy in the Wang Jingwei Regime (1940鈥�1945)," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 80.1 (2020): 37鈥�83.
Image Description and Credit:
Fig. Wang Jingwei in suit and tie, writing 鈥淎dvance, toward the goal of China's renaissance and East Asia's renaissance!", illustration by It艒 Kikuz艒, 1941
Source: Yamanaka Minetar艒, Shin Ch奴goku no dai shid艒sha, p. 323. Image courtesy of Harvard Yenching Library of the Harvard College Library, Harvard University
IZO Events
At the beginning of the coming semester the IZO launches a new project. In connexion with the chair 鈥淜nowledge and Society鈥� endowed by Deutsche Bank, we offer in the summer semester an online series of lectures on 鈥淐hina on the way to becoming the leading economic power: Sinological and economic perspectives".
In this lecture series funded by the Deutsche Bank Foundation, renowned academics from several fields of expertise will address a number of topics related to China's rise to economic power. The lectures are interlinked by their common topic, but they can also be appreciated as freestanding talks.
Anyone who wishes to follow these thought-provoking talks and discussions about China's development is most welcome, whether they are students, academics or members of the general public.
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Content: In the context of global climate change, climate risk insurances are generally highlighted as a key element of adaptation to and management of global climate risks. This research is concerned with Indonesia's approach to such insurances and discusses the country's motivation to implement a national climate risk insurance programme. By drawing on media theories on frames and framing and by using frame analysis, this study identifies six frames that the Indonesian government and/or Indonesian journalists apply with regard to interpreting climate risk insurances, and locates the results in the wider international discourse. In addition, the analysis of both governmental and journalistic frames also allows to assess the present relation between the government and the press, which looks back at a very specific interconnection due to Indonesia's socio-political history.
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Announcements
Third-party funding for QuaMaFA, 2021-2024
Understanding Skilled Labour Migration in East Asia: Research Project led by 51猎奇 Receives 2 Million Euros in Funding.
Aging societies in industrialised nations need skilled workers - specialists in the IT sector, in innovative start-ups, or from top universities. This applies to Germany as well as to the East Asian countries of South Korea, Singapore, China, and especially Japan. Because of their quality of life and lucrative renumeration, these countries are attractive for qualified migrants. But the recipe for success in the competition for the best brains is far from clear: What attracts well-trained specialists to Japan, South Korea, China, or Singapore? What facilitates, and what hinders the integration of skilled foreign workers? What social networks do skilled migrant workers develop? What role does their own initiative for further qualification, their ethnicity and nationality, their gender and multilingualism play? And what causes skilled workers to return to their home countries after years?
More information here.
Current Research
The final volume of the externally funded project Africa's Asian Options (AFRASO) has been published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Ruth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, and Frank Schulze-Engler (Hg.): Afrasian Transformations: Transregional Perspectives on Development Cooperation, Social Mobility, and Cultural Change, Brill, 2020.
African-Asian interactions contribute to the emergence of a decentred, multi-polar world in which different actors need to redefine themselves and their relations to each other. Afrasian Transformations explores these changes to map out several arenas where these transformations have already produced startling results: development politics, South-South cooperation, cultural memory, mobile lifeworlds and transcultural connectivity. The contributions in this volume neither celebrate these shifting dynamics as felicitous proof of a new age of South-South solidarity, nor do they debunk them as yet another instance of burgeoning geopolitical hegemony. Instead, they seek to come to terms with the ambivalences, contradictions and potential benefits entailed in these transformations 鈥� that are also altering our understanding of (trans)area in an increasingly globalized world.
Contributors include: Seifudein Adem, Nafeesah Allen, Jan Beek, Tom De Bruyn, Casper Hendrik Claassen, Astrid Erll, Hanna Getachew Amare, John Njenga Karugia, Guive Khan-Mohammad, Vinay Lal, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Jamie Monson, Diderot Nguepjouo, Satwinder S. Rehal, Ute R枚schenthaler, Alexandra Samokhvalova, Darryl C. Thomas, and Sophia Thubauville.
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