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DESCRIPTION:Dekasegi: Emigration to Canada from Meiji Japan\n\nBy Dr. Audre
 y Kobayashi\n\nAdmission FREE\n\nDr. Kobayashi will talk about the conditi
 ons in Japan\, and the impact  of emigration on Japanese villages\, and al
 so about conditions in early  Vancouver.\n\nA  native of British Columbia\
 , Dr. Audrey Kobayashi completed a B.A.  (1976) and M.A. (1978) at the Uni
 versity of British Columbia\, and a PhD  (1983) at UCLA. Dr. Kobayashi tau
 ght in Geography and East Asian Studies  at McGill University from 1983 to
  1994\, when she came to Queen&rsquo\;s\,  initially as Director of the In
 stitute of Women&rsquo\;s Studies (1994 to 1999)  and thereafter as Profes
 sor of Geography. Dr. Kobayashi has spent time  as a visiting professor at
  the University of British Columbia\,  University College London and\, mos
 t recently\, Canterbury University\,  Christchurch\, New Zealand. In 1994\
 , Dr. Kobayashi was a Fulbright Fellow  at the Migration Policy Institute 
 in Washington\, DC. Other positions  include President of the Canadian Ass
 ociation of Geographers  (1999-2001)\, and Editor\, People Place and Regio
 n\, Annals of the  Association of American Geographers.
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SUMMARY:Speakers Series: Dekasegi
URL:/en/events/2012/09/19/speakers-series-dekasegi/
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