July 19-20, 2008 10 am - 5 pm Seoul, South Korea Information Sciences Building, Media Hall, Room # 6110 SungKongHoe University (SKHU) Contact:
, 02-2610-4751
Hosted by:
Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA) Institute for East Asian Studies, SungkongHoe University (IEAS) The Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES)
Programme
Western Concepts and Asian Realities: Situating Race and Caste; Nationality and Ethnicity
Presenter: T.K Oommen Professor Emertitus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Race, Government Policy, and Migrants in South Korea
Presenter: Shim, Bo-Seon Research Professor, IEAS, SKHU, South Korea Discussants: Um, Han Jin Professor, Hallym University, South Korea Honey Lay Ean Tan Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya, Malaysia
Race, Ethnicity and Chinese Rural Women
Presenter: Sit Tsui, Margaret Asst. Professor, East China Normal University, China Lee, Jung-Ok Professor, Daegu Catholic University, South Korea
Race, Identity, and Asian Diaspora in the "west"
Presenters: Sheng-mei Ma Professor, Michigan State University, The United States Urmila Goel Freelance Researcher, European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany Discussants: Francis Daehoon Lee Executive Director, ARENA, South Korea Alex Jong Seok Lee Programme Officer, ARENA, The United States
Democracy on the streets clashes with the state violence in South Korea
Written by Administrator
Monday, 02 June 2008
Photos from May 31 - June 1 Clash: The new government brutally crushes demonstrators demanding ban on US beef and right to health. From May 3, daily rally continues into June. On May 31, more than a hundred thousands joined peaceful candle-light march in Seoul. Rallies have spread to major cities.
Against the Social Integration Programme by the Ministry of Justice of ROK
<Source: Korea Women Migrant HR Center>
On April 14, 2008, about 90 Korean NGOs working for migrants' human rights held a press conference advocating overall revision of the Social Integration Programme to be implemented by the Ministry of Justice of ROK. ARENA also joined the conference as one member of Network of Marriage Migrant Groups in Korea. In the public statement, we demanded that 1) the Ministry of Justice do an overall revision of the mandatory Social Integration Programme which is being instituted as one of the preconditions for marriage migrants to acquire nationality, and 2) an alternative programme should replace the Social Integration Programme in order to give support with gender-sensitive and multi-cultural principles.
2007 Regional School on Marriage Migration in Asia
Written by Jiyoung LeeAn
Tuesday, 04 December 2007
2007 Regional School on Marriage Migration in Asia : A Platform for Research and Action
ARENA organized 2007 Regional School on Marriage Migration in Asia: A Platform for Research and Action on November 10-13, 2007 in Pagsanjan, Philippines, in collaboration with Korea Migrant Women Human Rights Center, Isis International-Manila, and Kanlungan Center Foundation Inc. In the regional school, about 35 NGO activists, concerned researcher, and marriage migrants from 6 different countries such as the Philippines, Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan participated and shared the current situation of each country and explore diverse issues such as diaspora, human (in)security, and citizenship related to marriage migration.
