Inequality, Labor, and Migration in East Asia

Through the Prism of Global Pandemic Virtual Workshop

Long-standing demographic changes will have serious implications for the nature of work, spatial mobility, and the overall distribution of resources in the countries of East Asia. Has the Coronavirus pandemic seriously affected any of the aforementioned areas and, if so, how? Join us for an inter-and cross-disciplinary workshop that explores the ongoing pandemic and its implications for inequality, labor, and migration in China, Hong Kong, Japan, the Korean peninsula, and Taiwan.

The workshop will begin with introductory remarks before moving to several short (approx. 20 minutes) presentations around the theme and will then conclude with several affinity group breakout rooms to further facilitate in-depth conversations. Participants from all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages are welcome and we especially encourage advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and fixed-term researchers to both present and participate.

This event is hosted by East Asia Program's core faculty member, Tristan Ivory (International and Comparative Labor, ILR), and Kun Huang, Ph.D. Student (Comparative Literature) - she is also an officer of the Graduate Student Steering Committee (GSSC) of EAP with the generous cooperation in planning from Vivian Shaw (Harvard College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University) and Sujin Eom (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, Dartmouth University) .