Governance, Internal Migration, Urbanization: A Cross-Regional Research Project

March 17, 2017
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Governance, Internal Migration, Urbanization: A Cross-Regional Research Project

March 17 – 18, 2017
East-West Center, Burns Hall, Honolulu, HI
Organized by the Pacific Basin Research Center and the East-West Center

 

SCHEDULE

Day 1

08.30-09.00 Breakfast

09.00-10.00 Opening Remarks

  • Nancy D. Lewis, Director, Research Program, East-West Center
  • William Ascher, Claremont McKenna College, and Director, Pacific Basin Research Center, Soka University of America
  • Shabbir Cheema, Senior Fellow and Director, Asia-Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiative, East-West Center

Moderators: William Ascher and Shabbir Cheema

10.00-10.40 (Speaker 20 mins, Discussant 10 mins, Q&A 10 mins) Alicia Luedke (University of British Columbia), “Inside Out: Managing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Displacement in South Sudan-The United Nations Protection of Civilian Camps” ***Speaker Connecting via Skype***

Discussant: Amanda Ellis (East-West Center)

10.40-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11:40 (Speaker 20 mins, Discussant 10 mins, Q&A 10 mins) Lee Seymour (Université de Montréal), “Protracted Displacement and Competing Claims to Territory in the South Caucasus”

Discussant: Rikhil Bhavnani (Wisconsin Madison)

11.40-11.50 Group Photo, East West Center

11.50-01.20 Lunch: First Floor Staff Lounge

01.20-02.00 (Speaker 20 mins, Discussant 10 mins, Q&A 10 mins) Vineeta Yadav (Penn State), “Special Economic Zones, Land Grabs, and Internal Migration: SEZs in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India”

Discussant: Rumela Sen, John D. Montgomery Postdoctoral Fellow (Soka University of America)

2.00-02.40 (Speaker 20 mins, Discussant 10 mins, Q&A 10 mins) Rikhil Bhavnani (Wisconsin Madison) & Bethany Lacina (Rochester), “Conflict and Internal Migration in India”

Discussant: Shane Barter, Associate Director of the Pacific Basin Research Center (Soka University of America)

02:40-03.00 Coffee break 03:00-04:20 (Speakers 20 mins each, Discussion 20 mins)

  • Report on EWC projects
  • Jefferson Fox, “Large-scale land concessions and internal migrations: Rubber tappers in Northeast Cambodia and factory workers in the Red River Delta, Vietnam”
  • Sumeet Saksena, “Peri-urbanization in South and Southeast Asia: key findings from recent EWC projects”
  • Shabbir Cheema, “Urban Governance for Sustainable Development in Asia”

04.20-05.10 Tongji University, Shanghai team General Discussion

05.30-07.30 Welcome Reception / Dinner, First Floor Staff Lounge/East-West Center Gallery

Hosted by: Richard R. Vuylsteke, President, East-West Center

Day 2

08.30-09.00 Breakfast

Moderators: William Ascher and Shabbir Cheema

09:00-9:40 (Speaker 20 mins, Discussant 10 mins, Q&A 10 mins) Rumela Sen (Soka University of America), “Competing Mobilization of Tribal and Class Identity: Evolution of the Politics of Internal Migration in North India” Discussant: Shabbir Cheema (East-West Center)

09.40-10:20 (Speaker 20 mins, Discussant 10 mins, Q&A 10 mins) Erin Lin (Princeton), “Internal Migration and Land Distribution in Cambodia” Discussant: Jefferson Fox (East-West Center)

10.20-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.00 (Speaker 10 mins, Discussant 10 mins, Q&A 10 mins) Isabelle Côté (Memorial University of Newfoundland), “Adopting Migrants as Brothers and Sisters –Fictive Kinship as Conflict Resolution and Conflict Prevention in Lampung, Indonesia” ***Speaker Connecting via Skype***

Discussant: Ashok Das, Department of Urban and Regional Planning (University of Hawaii)

11.00-11.40 (Speaker 20 mins, Discussant 10 mins, Q&A 10 mins) Shane Barter (Soka University of America), “Adapting ‘Cooling Off’ Ceremonies for Returnees in Aceh, Indonesia”

Discussant: Bethany Lacina (Rochester)

11.40-01.00 Lunch, JAB Third Floor Lobby

01.00-01.40 (Speaker 20 mins, Discussant 10 mins, Q&A 10 mins) Ivan Small (Central Connecticut University), “Vietnamese Returnees: Rights and Interactions with Host Communities and Government”

Discussant: Michael DiGregorio, The Asia Foundation, Hanoi, Vietnam

01.40-03.00 (Speakers 20 mins each, Discussion 20 mins)

  • Shabbir Cheema (East-West Center) “The Challenges of Urbanization”
  • William Ascher (Pacific Basin Research Center, Claremont McKenna College), “Obligations and Potential Roles of the International Community to Address the Challenges of Intra-State Migration”
  • Michael Lofchie (University of California, Los Angeles), “Synthesizing the commonalities in contrasts”

03.00-03.20 Coffee break

03:20-03.50 Plenary and Closing