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SUMMARY:On the Verge of (Il)Legality: Korean Nightclub Hostesses in Japan
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 	Presented by Professor Haeng-ja Chung, Department 
 of Anthropology, Hamilton College.\n
 	A 
 nightclub hostess in Japan is often confused 
 with a prostitute and misunderstood as an illegal 
 worker by some Americans. While hostess 
 work itself is a legal occupation in Japan, 
 because there is no hostess visa, the boundary 
 between legality and illegality becomes a complicated 
 issue when migrants work as hostesses. 
 In this presentation I investigate the blurred 
 boundaries between the legality and illegality 
 by considering the theoretical notion 
 of "human security." My research 
 is based upon my in-depth, long-term, multi-sited 
 ethnographic field study involving participant 
 observation working as a paid hostess 
 at multiple nightclubs in 2000-2001 and follow-up 
 research in 2008-2010 in Osaka, Nagoya, 
 Tokyo, Fukuoka, and Seoul. It becomes evident 
 that certain law is applied differently based 
 upon gender and nationality. Such double standards 
 contribute to shifting the legal boundaries. 
 The law enforcement's intermittent, inconsistent 
 handling of migrant workers further 
 perpetuates the vicious cycle, which undermines 
 the human security of migrant workers.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Asian Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://asianstudies.msu.edu/\n
LOCATION:201 International Center
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