Workshop on Asian Migration Network and Migrants' Health | 21 March 2025
Dear APA members,
We are delighted to announce the workshop on ‘Asian Migration Network and Migrants' Health’. This workshop invites speakers from four Asian countries, Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal and India, and commentators from Japan, Australia and other countries (TBC), to discuss the issues concerning the migration between Asian countries from both origin and destination country perspectives in general and on migrant health in particular. We welcome you to join for active discussion.
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Friday, 21 March 2025
14:00-16:00 Bangkok time, 16:00-18:00 Tokyo time
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Please register from the link below for the Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/S6mPPqhAQzaHW8LKXnzg3w
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English
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| Bangkok time |
Activities |
| 14:00 - 14:05 |
Opening remark by Reiko Hayashi (Director-General, IPSS, Japan) |
| 14:05 - 14:30 |
Thailand by Chalermpol Chamchan (Associate Professor and Director, Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, Thailand)
Commentator: Jun Kobayashi (Professor, University of the Ryukyus, President of the Japan Association for Global Health, Japan)
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| 14:30 - 14:55 |
Indonesia by Salahudin Muhidin (Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Australia)
Commentator: Ariane Utomo (Senior Lecturer in Demography and Population Geography, The University of Melbourne, Australia)
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| 14:55 - 15:20 |
Nepal by Padma Prasad Khatiwada (Associate Professor, Central Department of Population Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal)
Commentator: Himalaya Subedi (Program Manager, K-HaMi Project funded by KOICA, The Bridge International, Republic of Korea)
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| 15:20 - 15:45 |
India (SALAM network) by Kailash Chandra Das, (Professor and Head, Department of Migration and Urban Studies,
International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India)
Commentator: Yu Korekawa (Director, Department of International Research and Cooperation, Head of Migration Research Unit, IPSS, Japan)
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| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Discussion
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* This workshop is co-organized by Asian Population Association (https://www.asianpa.org), Japan Association for Global Health (https://jagh.or.jp/) and the Migration Research Unit (https://www.ipss.go.jp/projects/j/MRU) of National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS), with the Research Grant 24BA1001 by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan
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