Asian Migration and the Global Asian Diasporas 亞洲移民及其全球流徙 6-7 September 2013 City University of Hong Kong Co-hosted by Southeast Asia Research Centre, International Organization for Migration and Department of Asian and International Studies Organiser: Yuk Wah Chan, City University of Hong Kong Core members: David Haines, George Mason University Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University Long S. Le, University of Houston Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, University of Texas at Austin Willem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam Terence Chun Tat Shum, City University of Hong Kong Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, National University of Singapore Heidi Fung, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Valerie C. Yap, City University of Hong Kong Conference Administrator: Irene Chan
[email protected] SEARC website: www.cityu.edu.hk/searc Conference programme Day 1: 6 September 2013, Friday Day 1 Connie Fan Multi-media Conference Room 8:30 Welcome remarks (Chiara Formichi, Associate Director, SEARC) 8:40 Opening speech (Andrew Bruce, Regional Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, IOM) 9:00 Keynote speech (Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore) 10:00 Break Day 1 Connie Fan Multi-media Conference Room Room 6-213, Academic 3 10:15 Panel 1: Northeast Asia Panel 2: Cambodian, Laotian and Hmong Diaspora Panel Chair: David Haines Panel Chair: Jonathan Lee Confronting diversity: migration challenges in and from Japan and Korea Singing our lives with his words: R.J. Sin, David Haines, George Mason University Cambodian American musician strumming history, pain, and subjectivity Confronting diversity in South Korea: from Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State rhetoric to policy University Timothy C.