{"id":1280,"date":"2023-01-02T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T10:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/urban-rural-migration-japan\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2023-01-03T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T08:10:11","slug":"symposium-urban-rural-migration-in-japan-and-europe-transnational-and-comparative-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/urban-rural-migration-japan\/2023\/01\/02\/symposium-urban-rural-migration-in-japan-and-europe-transnational-and-comparative-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium: Urban rural migration in Japan and Europe: Transnational and comparative perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> February 2, 2023 &#8211; February 3, 2023<br><strong>Location:<\/strong> JDZB, Saargem\u00fcnder Str. 2, 14195 Berlin<br><strong>Registration and program:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/jdzb.de\/de\/veranstaltungen\/urban-rural-migration-japan-and-europe-transnational-and-comparative-perspectives\">Urban-Rural Migration in Japan and Europe: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives | Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin (jdzb.de)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rural areas are struggling with economic and demographic problems in many places of the world and are often confronted with the migration of rural populations to urban centers. This is especially true for communities in rural Japan, which have been affected by declining birth rates, aging, and out-migration for decades. In the past decade, however, there has been a sharp increase in both the number of people interested in moving from urban to rural areas in Japan and those who actually relocate. Urban-rural migration of older people yearning for a more relaxed retirement or younger people seeking a more sustainable lifestyle is currently evident in many post-industrial societies. A distinctive feature of Japan is the numerous programs and subsidies initiated by various actors to encourage people to move or return to rural Japan and thereby revitalize local economies and agriculture. Although research on rural areas in Japan assumes that the immigration of educated and creative people has a positive impact on the revitalization of rural communities, there has been little empirical evidence to support this assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the starting point of this symposium, which aims to compare empirical results from the\u00a0DFG project &#8220;Urban-rural migration and rural revitalization in Japan&#8221;\u00a0with urban-rural migration outside Japan, while at the same time discussing the role of transnational mobility for domestic urban-rural migration in Japan. From an interdisciplinary perspective and with the involvement of practitioners, the symposium aims to analyze connections between urban-rural migration, (local) revitalization practices and global social, political and economic structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Program:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong><em>Thursday, February 2<\/em><\/strong>\n\n<strong>15:00 \u2013         Registration<\/strong>\n\n<strong>15:30 \u2013 16:00   Opening<\/strong>\n\n15:30 \u2013 15:45   Tokiko Kiyota (Japanese-German Center Berlin)\n\n15:45 \u2013 16:00   Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)\n\n<strong>16:00 \u2013 17:00   Keynote Speeches<\/strong>\n\n16:00 \u2013 16:30   <strong>Post-Pandemic Developments in Lifestyle Migration: from Back-  to-the-Land to Urbanrural?<\/strong>\nSusanne Klien (Hokkaido University)\n\n16:30 \u2013 17:00   <strong>Where are we at with Counterurbanisation in these Post-Covid Times: Rural Renaissance or Recuperation?<\/strong>\nKeith Halfacree (Swansea University)\n\n<em>17:00 \u2013 17:30   Coffee Break<\/em>\n\n<strong>17:30 \u2013 19:00   Roundtable Discussion: Urban-Rural Migration and Rural Revitalization from a Global Perspective: Challenges for Japan and Europe<\/strong>\nChair: Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)\n\nSusanne Klien (Hokkaido University)\n\nKeith Halfacree (Swansea University)\n\nTaichi Goto (Region Works LLC Fukuoka)\n\nAnnett Steinf\u00fchrer (Th\u00fcnen Institute of Rural Studies) \n\n<em>19:00 \u2013         Reception<\/em>\n\n\n<strong><em>Friday, February 3<\/em><\/strong>\n\n<strong>09:00 \u2013         Registration<\/strong>\n\n<strong>09:30 \u2013 11:00   Session 1: Urban-Rural Migrants\u2019 Experiences and their Contributions to Rural Areas <\/strong>\nChair: Cecilia Luzi (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)\n\n09:30 \u2013 09:50   <strong>The Best of Both Worlds? Experiences of Urban Migrants in Rural Aso<\/strong>\nWolfram Manzenreiter and Antonia Miserka (University of Vienna) \n\n09:50 \u2013 10:10   <strong>Mobile Biographies of Urban-Rural Migrants in Rural East Germany: the Case of Nordsachsen District<\/strong>\nTim Leibert (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography) \n\n10:10 \u2013 10:30   <strong>Lifestyle Migration and Social Distinction in Rural Peripheries: Lessons from a Study on Alternative Foodscapes in Czechia\u2019s Borderlands<\/strong>\nAnja Decker (Czech Academy of Science)\n\n10:30 \u2013 11:00   Discussion\n\n11:00 \u2013 11:30   <em>Coffee Break<\/em>\n\n<strong>11:30 \u2013 12:30   Session 2: Project Introduction: Urban-rural Migration and Rural Revitalization in Japan<\/strong>\nChair: Lin-Yu Ng (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)\n\n11:30 \u2013 11:45   <strong>Urban-Rural Migration and Rural Revitalization in Kyushu: Online, Offline and in Between<\/strong>\nCornelia Reiher (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)\n\n11:45 \u2013 12:00   <strong>Welcoming Foreign Talent: How a Small Municipality Seeks to Revitalize itself<\/strong>\nTu Thanh Ngo (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)\n\n12:00 \u2013 12:15   <strong>Finding Home in Rural Japan: Urban-Rural Migrants in Kyushu<\/strong>\nCecilia Luzi (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)\n\n12:15 \u2013 12:30   Discussion\n\n<em>12:30 \u2013 14:00   Lunch<\/em>\n\n<strong>14:00 \u2013 15:30   Session 3: Urban-Rural Migration and the State: Policies and Politics<\/strong>\nChair: Tu Thanh Ngo (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)\n\n14:00 \u2013 14:20   <strong>The Politics of Attracting Residents to Depopulating Municipalities in Japan<\/strong>\nKen Hijino (Kyoto University) \n\n14:20 \u2013 14:40   <strong>Hamm (Sieg): Into the Future with Creative Solutions<\/strong>\nDietmar Henrich (Mayor of Hamm)\n\n14:40 \u2013 15:00   <strong>Locals and Newcomers in Remote Rural Areas: Twenty Years of Experimental Research<\/strong>\nAngel Paniagua Mazorra (Spanish Council for Scientific Research)\n\n15:00 \u2013 15:30   Discussion\n\n<em>15:30 \u2013 16:00   Coffee Break<\/em>\n\n<strong>16:00 \u2013 17:30   Session 4: The Future of Rural Areas and Urban-Rural Migration<\/strong>\nChair: Maritchu Durand (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)\n\n16:00 \u2013 16:20   <strong>A Framework for a New Creative Tourism-Based Community Development in Japan<\/strong>\nTadashi Saito (Yamaguchi Prefectural University) \n\n16:20 \u2013 16:40   <strong>Urban-Rural Migration and Rural Futures in Germany<\/strong>\nAnnett Steinf\u00fchrer (Th\u00fcnen Institute of Rural Studies)\n\n16:40 \u2013 17:00   <strong>Opportunities and Challenges in Swedish Rural Areas<\/strong>\nSusanne Stenbacka (Uppsala University)\n\n17:00 \u2013 17:30   Discussion\n\n<strong>17:30 \u2013 18:15   Final Discussion<\/strong>\nChair: Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)\n\n<em>18:15           End of symposium<\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time: February 2, 2023 &#8211; 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