PTJC Webinar Series 2021-2022
The Path to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Approaches in Japan and Canada
October 27, 2021
Webinar 1: Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Museum
Presenters:
Dr. Shiro Sasaki, Executive Director, National Ainu Museum
Dr. Maddie Knickerbocker, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Moderator:
Chelsea Miya, PhD Candidate and CGS SSHRC fellow in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.
January 13, 2022
Webinar 2: Migration and Intersectionality
Presenters:
Dr. Sara Dorow is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. Her research and teaching are in the fields of work and family, migration and mobility, gender intersectionality, and qualitative methods. Over the last fifteen years, her research has centered around sociocultural facets of resource extraction in the Alberta oil sands. Dr. Dorow has published in an array of interdisciplinary journals, and is author of Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship (NYU 2006). She has served in a variety of administrative roles at UAlberta, including Founding Director of the Community Service-Learning Program and Chair of the Department of Sociology.
Dr. Naomi Chi is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, Hokkaido University. Her area of specialization is East Asian politics, with an emphasis on migration, demographic changes, multiculturalism, gender, ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as human security in East Asia. Her latest publications include, “'Walking in Her Shoes': Prospects and Challenges of Marriage Migrants in South Korea” (Annals on Public Policy, March 2019), “Japan’s New Wave of Immigration?: Focusing on the Strategies of Local Government in Japan” (Annals on Public Policy, March 2020) and “What the Global Pandemic has Revealed about East Asia: From Mistrust to Empathy” (Annuals on Public Policy, May 2021) and “To be or not to be: The Plight of Asylum Seekers in East Asia” (Geopolitics, forthcoming). She is currently the President of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS), as well as a researcher of the Eurasia Unit for Border Research in Japan (UBRJ) and the Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS) project at the Arctic Research Centre, Hokkaido University.
Moderator:
Chelsea Miya, PhD Candidate and CGS SSHRC fellow in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.
March 2, 2022
Webinar 3: Immigrants, Welfare, and Care
Presenters:
Dr. Bukola Salami is the Director of Intersections of Gender Signature Area at the Office of Vice President Research and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Windsor and her Master of Nursing and PhD in Nursing from the University of Toronto. Her research program focuses on policies and practices shaping migrants health. She has been involved in over 75 funded studies in this area. She has lead research projects on African immigrant child health, immigrant mental health, access to healthcare for Black women, access to healthcare for immigrant children, Black youth mental health, health of internally displaced children, and parenting practices of African immigrants. She founded and leads an African migrant child research network of 42 scholars from 4 continents. In 2020, she founded the Black Youth Mentorship and Leadership Program at the University of Alberta. The program, the first University based interdisciplinary mentorship program for Black youths in Canada, seeks to socially and economically empower Black high school youths to contribute meaningfully to Canadian society. Her work on Black youth mental health led to the creation of a mental health clinic in Alberta. She has also presented her work to policy makers. In March 2021, she was invited to present her work to Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and four other ministers. She is involved in several community volunteer initiatives including serving as a public member on the Council of the Alberta College of Social Worker, the Public Health Agency of Canada Working Group on the Mental Health of Black Canadian, the Bell Lets Talk Funding advisory committee, and active involvement with the Black Opportunities Fund. She is an Associate Editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and on the Editorial Board of Nursing Inquiry and Qualitative Health Research Journal. She is an advisory board member of the CIHR Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health. Dr. Salami has received several awards for research excellence and community engagement: 100 Accomplished Black Women in Canada; Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Emerging Nurse Researcher of the Year Award; College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CARNA) Award for Nursing Excellence; and Alberta Avenue Edmonton Top 40 under 40. In 2020, she became a recipient of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, the highest research award in nursing. In 2021, she became a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Reiko Ogawa is a professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Chiba University. Her research interests include migration, gender and civil society. She serves as a board member for the Japan Association for Migration Policy Studies, chairperson of Gender Equality Committee of Chiba City, Refugee Counselor of Ministry of Justice, board member of a NPO Japan International Center for the Rights of the Child and PI of Chiba Studies on Migration and Refugees. Some of her publications include: “When Local Meets Global: The Changing Face of Old-Age Care in Japan” in Eds. Horn, V. et al., The Global Old Age Care Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), “Making of Migrant Care Workers in East Asia” in Eds. Jeon, Y. et al., Routledge Handbook on Gender in East Asia (Routledge, 2020), “Use and Abuse of Trafficking Discourse in Japan”, Journal of Population and Social Studies, 2020, 28:106–125 and a co-edited book entitled Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Moderator:
Chelsea Miya, PhD Candidate and CGS SSHRC fellow in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.