Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung served as a discussant at the Columbia Modern Japan Seminar on January 18 at Columbia University. She presented a reaction paper titled "Problematizing the Legal Definitions of Ethnicity, Nationality and Citizenship."
It was a response to a paper "A Comparison of the Legal Framework Regarding Foreign and Ethnic Minority Children's Right to Education in the United States and Japan" written by Yasuko Morooka, a lawyer and Global Fellow of Law School at NYU. Chung discusses the legal concepts, such as ethnicity, nationality and citizenship, juxtaposes the notion of "foreign" and "alien" in the immigration law, and illuminates the gap between "people" and term "kokumin" used in the Japanese Constitution.
It was a response to a paper "A Comparison of the Legal Framework Regarding Foreign and Ethnic Minority Children's Right to Education in the United States and Japan" written by Yasuko Morooka, a lawyer and Global Fellow of Law School at NYU. Chung discusses the legal concepts, such as ethnicity, nationality and citizenship, juxtaposes the notion of "foreign" and "alien" in the immigration law, and illuminates the gap between "people" and term "kokumin" used in the Japanese Constitution.
