Symposium "Discrimination, Integration, Coexistence: What can Japan learn from European experiences?" will be held.

Symposium "Discrimination, Integration, Coexistence: What can Japan learn from European experiences?" will be held on Saturday, February 13.
Admission free. We welcome all citizens and specialists.

【Date and Time】
10A.M. - All day
Saturday, Febryary 13, 2010

【Venue】
International Conference Center Hiroshima

【Objective】
Today, with two hundred million people living as foreigners in places outside of their countries, research concerning interracial and inter-ethnic coexistence has become exceedingly important.
Focusing on how Europeans have dealt with interracial barriers, using their experiences and hardships, our goal of this symposium is to consider how we can construct a society that will promote coexistence in Japan. This symposium will have researchers report on various fields of European experiences dealing with interracial coexistence including France's integrative poliical political, Croatia's ethnic coexistence dillemas, and Austria's discrimination and integration. Afterwards, Japan's coexistence-integration problem will be taken on, followed by a panel discussion on the possibility of constructing viable coexistence model.

【Lecturers and Titles】

• Prof. Jean-Luc Richard (Rennes University, France) : "Integration policies for migrants and their Families in France; consequences and longitudinal evidence"
• Prof. Wolfgrang Benedek (Graz Umiversity, Austria) : "Integration of ethnically different people in Austria and European anti-discrimination law"
• Prof. Han Entzinger (Utrecht University, Holland) : " Diversity and orientations of integration policies in the EU"
• Prof. Takashi Miyajima (Hosei University, Japan) : " Immigration politics of Japan and its problems : in reflecting on the possibility of and East Asian Community"
• Prof. Kazuo Zaiki (Hiroshima University, Japan) : "The problem of reconstructing the multi-ethnic society in the former Yugoslavia; from the viewpoint of the Serbs in Croatia"
• Prof. Levi Alvares Claude (Hiroshima University, Japan) : "What can we expect of school as an integration mean as seen from the French experience?"

【Panel Discussion】
Moderater: Soho Machida (Hiroshima University)
Discussants: Masami Nishimoto (The ChugokuShinbun), etc.

【Language】
Japanese and English 　※Interpreter will be offered.

【Contact】
Hiroshima University Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Prof. Claude Levi Alvares
Tel : 082-424-6379
E-mail : clevialvares AT gmail.com
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