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Ayaka Yoshimizu

@vivadora

Educator, researcher, mother, wife & settler on the land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ peoples. UBC Asian Studies. Asian Diaspora Studies. She/her.

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31.07.2025 21:33 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Unpacking ‘birth tourism’: incidental citizenship and the diverse migration and reproduction trajectories of nonresident mothers in Canada Birth tourism in Canada is defined as the practice of giving birth on Canadian soil while on a nonresident visa for the express purpose of enabling the child to obtain Canadian citizenship. Propone...

Challenging common myths, Prof. Amanda Cheong and her co-authors reveal that nonresident mothers’ decisions to give birth in Canada are often shaped by complex—and sometimes incidental—factors, rather than by strategic #citizenship planning.

🔗 Read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

28.07.2025 22:53 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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「外国人優遇」連呼されてるけど優遇って具体的に何? →誰も明確な根拠をもって答えられない : なんJ政治ネタまとめ 1: それでも動く名無し 2025/07/16(水) 11:34:35.26 ID:q2ytkXkr0 「外国人は不起訴になる~」→起訴率は日本人よりむしろ高い 「生活保護を貰いやすい」→日本人と受給率同じ 「留学生に18万円も~」→博士課程支援プログラムで日本人と同条件 優遇1つもないやん 引

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20.07.2025 10:38 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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📚 Congratulations to CMS affiliate Prof. ‪‪Ayaka Yoshimizu on the release of her new co-edited volume, "𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺: 𝘋𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴’ 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴"!

Learn more and order the book here: www.routledge.com/Migration-an...

03.06.2025 16:53 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion: UBC's Palestine Exception — how re-interpreting the University Act enabled a lawsuit The University Act was never intended to compel “institutional neutrality.” It was the Bacon administration that helped cultivate and disseminate a “perverse interpretation” of the statute, paving the...

The University Act was never intended to compel “institutional neutrality.” It was the Bacon administration that helped cultivate and disseminate a “perverse interpretation” of the statute, paving the way for an absurd but perilous lawsuit, writes Pheroze Unwalla.

Link: ubyssey.ca/opinion/ubc-...

30.05.2025 23:11 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion: UBC's Palestine Exception — how re-interpreting the University Act enabled a lawsuit The University Act was never intended to compel “institutional neutrality.” It was the Bacon administration that helped cultivate and disseminate a “perverse interpretation” of the statute, paving the...

Excellent op-ed on the Palestine exception in the context of the University Act and UBC:
ubyssey.ca/opinion/ubc-...

31.05.2025 04:35 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Did Divestment Protests Succeed at UBC? | The Tyee Students have fought hard to get UBC to divest from Israel. In response, the university has promised a ‘human rights framework.’

Two months-long student encampments, a student referendum, a two-day student strike and a 12-day student hunger strike have not persuaded the University of British Columbia’s board of governors to denounce Israel’s military response and divest from the institution’s financial ties to the country.

18.04.2025 23:34 👍 37 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Module: Kiyo | おキヨさん | Transpacific Underground Next

You can also access the teaching & learning module developed by Nicole Yakashiro to engage with this material critically. It features an informative and inspiring video lecture by Laura Ishiguro!! shorturl.at/WM2u0

06.04.2025 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kiyo | おキヨさん | Transpacific Underground Oral History | オーラル・ヒストリー Vignettes | 10片のエピソード This translation project was supported by the Powell Street Festival Society. Photographs | 写真

Proudly announcing the release of new content for my open educational resource Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground! Visit “Kiyo” primary sources to access the oral history of Kiyo Tanaka-Goto, a Japanese woman who was running a brothel in Vancouver until 1942. shorturl.at/nGkzb

06.04.2025 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Can Shiori Ito’s documentary open Japan’s black box? |Chelsea Szendi Schieder & Atsushi Funahashi hasenao The country is wracked by ongoing high-profile sexual assault scandals, but Japanese theaters won’t yet screen Ito Shiori’s Oscar-nominated documentary film. An edited version of the text was...

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A very enlightening discussion of Shiori Ito's explosive documentary "Black Box Diaries" and its complex reception in Japan, coauthored by my friend/colleague Chelsea Szendi Schieder

29.03.2025 14:48 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

UBC students strike voting is open!

14.03.2025 05:20 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

📢 Scholars and all who believe Indigenous Studies programs are needed, please consider signing. York University has suspended admissions to their Indigenous Studies program.

04.03.2025 03:42 👍 30 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 0
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The Palestinian-Israeli film "No Other Land" has won the Oscar for best documentary feature at this year's Academy Awards.

Watch our interviews with two of the co-directors.

Basel Adra: www.democracynow.org/2025/2/18/ba...

Yuval Abraham: www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/no_...

03.03.2025 02:26 👍 1823 🔁 453 💬 28 📌 28
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Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present - Department of Asian Studies This talk offers a critical reflection of the invisibility in working on Indigeneity in southwest Asia within the structural imperatives of the academy. It takes up each of these themes by examining t...

Registration:
asia.ubc.ca/events/event...

Hosted by UBC Asian Studies Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Committee.

Details:
asia.ubc.ca/events/event...

18.02.2025 18:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present - Department of Asian Studies This talk offers a critical reflection of the invisibility in working on Indigeneity in southwest Asia within the structural imperatives of the academy. It takes up each of these themes by examining t...

Talk on Assyrians and Indigeneities for Vancouver folks:

Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present

Dr. Mariam Georgis, Assistant Professor of Global Indigeneity (Simon Fraser University)

Feb 26, 2025 | 4 pm–6pm PST (in-person)

Room 120, C.K. Choi Building (1855 West Mall)

18.02.2025 18:36 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1