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The Center for Documentation of Refugees and Migrants (CDR) was established in April 2009 through a grant from Hogakukan Ltd., a private corporation based in Tokyo.
The goal of the CDR is to collect, organize and distribute information related to the migration of peoples, and especially the study of migration.

The CDR publishes a journal, “The CDR Quarterly

CDRQ is an open journal published quarterly basis. The aim of the journal is to disseminate information collected from research activities of CDR and related partners. It also welcomes contributions not only from academics but also from practitioners who are facing real social problems. This journal focuses on issues of movement of people basically. However the contents also include variety of related areas such as governance and conflict resolution and prevention, as these issues induce and escalate forced displacement and more longer-term movement of people. The purpose of the journal is to provide a crosscut perspectives on refugee and migrant issues with comprehensive awareness to the issues of movement of people.

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CDRQ is an open journal published quarterly basis. The aim of the journal is to disseminate information collected from research activities of CDR and related partners. It also welcomes contributions not only from academics but also from practitioners who are facing real social problems. This journal focuses on issues of movement of people basically. However the contents also include variety of related areas such as governance and conflict resolution and prevention, as these issues induce and escalate forced displacement and more longer-term movement of people. The purpose of the journal is to provide a crosscut perspectives on refugee and migrant issues with comprehensive awareness to the issues of movement of people.

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),” which is available in print and on the website.
We are involved in the creation of “Shortbooks”, one page summaries on a variety of topics related to migration and migration studies.
We are involved in a project to create an online database utilizing the reference management software Zotero

Original Group Library on Zotero by CDR named "Center for Documentation of Refugees and Migrants - University of Tokyo" is a collection of various information including: anthropology, convention and official statements of policy and law, demography, economics, history, law, multi-disciplinary, political science, sociology, and video library.

Regardless of your affiliation and position, you can access every information on it. By requesting the owner on the web, you will also be able to add or amend the information too.

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, which can be accessed by anyone looking for references of printed and video material about migration.
We hold symposiums, academic conferences, a summer school and other events throughout the year.

The CDR is also the organization in charge of the Human Mobility Studies

The University of Tokyo’s Graduate School and College of Arts and Sciences, has begun a lecture series titled “Human Mobility Studies”, from April 2010; the series was established thanks to donations by the Hogakkan (Inc.). The themes of refugees and migration will be the main focus of discussion in this series. The series is to continue to be offered through March of 2015. Certificates will be awarded by the University of Tokyo to students who have successfully completed the course. The program will also start allowing people other than the University of Tokyo students to take the course for a reasonable fee soon after the coming winter term.

Establishment of a university lecture series on the topic of refugees and migration is perhaps the first attempt of its kind in Japan. The lecture series will involve actors from civil society, both domestic and international. In addition, we are planning to cooperate with the Research Center for Sustainable Peace of the Institute for Advanced Global Studies (IAGS), and are also looking forward to making a global hub for research on refugees, migration, and peace.

course at the University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo was established in 1877 as the first national university in Japan. As a leading research university, the University of Tokyo offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and conducts research across the full spectrum of academic activity. The university aims to provide its students with a rich and varied academic environment that ensures opportunities for both intellectual development and the acquisition of professional knowledge and skills.

The University of Tokyo has a faculty of over 4,000 and a total enrollment of about 29,000, evenly divided between undergraduate and graduate students. As of 2006 there were 2,269 international students, and over 2,700 foreign researchers come annually to the university for both short and extended visits. The University of Tokyo is known for the excellence of its faculty and students and ever since its foundation many of its graduates have gone on to become leaders in government, business, and the academic world.

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Lectures of the Human Mobility Studies

CDR is hosting the Human Mobility Studies, a series of lectures on the issue of movement of people. Some of the lectures are open for the general publics, though the course is basically for the students of the University of Tokyo, especially for the graduate students of the Graduate Program on Human Security.

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Theme of Lecture	Official Name of Lecture	Lecturer	Venue	Schedule
Refugee and Migration Studies II	Practical Training on Human Security I	Prof. Saburo TAKIZAWA After completion of a doctoral program at Tokyo Metropolitan University, he joined the Ministry of Justice in Japan in 1976, and then received an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) of America. In 1981, he joined the United Nations Office in Geneva, and then worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). He held prominent positions such as Director of Program Coordination the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Controller and Director at the United Nationals High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), headquarters in Geneva. He was appointed as the first Japanese UNCHR Representative in Japan from January 2007 to August 2008. Since April 2009 he has been in his present post as a professor at Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin University. He also has taught at the University of Tokyo since October 2009. His favorite word is ‘challenge.’ It is available to read an interview to him on CDRQ CDRQ is an open journal published quarterly basis. The aim of the journal is to disseminate information collected from research activities of CDR and related partners. It also welcomes contributions not only from academics but also from practitioners who are facing real social problems. This journal focuses on issues of movement of people basically. However the contents also include variety of related areas such as governance and conflict resolution and prevention, as these issues induce and escalate forced displacement and more longer-term movement of people. The purpose of the journal is to provide a crosscut perspectives on refugee and migrant issues with comprehensive awareness to the issues of movement of people. More.. Vol.1.		Friday 13:00-14:30
Legislative History of Refugee Protection in Japan	Practical Training on Human Security I	Prof. Hiroshi HOMMA	Rm.324 Bldg.8	Wednesday 14:40-16:10
International Refugee Law III This seminar uses Goodwin-Gill's The Refugee In International Law(3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2007), an established textbook in the field of international refugee law studies, as the textbook of the coursework. By reading through deeply the textbook comparing with other major works of international refugee protection in international law studies, this seminar will focus on the issues of legal protection of refugees and asylum seekers, not only of the 1951 Refugee Convention, but also by the other Human Rights Conventions and Customary International Laws. Accompanying with this seminar, it is recommended to take both International Refugee Law I This seminar uses Hathaway's The Rights of Refugees under International Law(Cambridge University Press, 2005), an established textbook in the field of international refugee law studies, as the textbook of the coursework. By reading through deeply the textbook comparing with other major works of international refugee protection in international law studies, this seminar will focus on the issues of legal protection of refugees and asylum seekers, not only of the 1951 Refugee Convention, but also by the other Human Rights Conventions and Customary International Laws. Accompanying with this seminar, it is recommended to take both International Refugee Law II and International Refugee Law III for more comprehensive and analytical unerstandings of the discipline. More.. and International Refugee Law II This seminar was conducted as an internsive course to master the basics of international refugee law protection. For the summer 2010, Prof. James C. HATHAWAY of the University of Michigan was invited as a main lecturer. The final day of the course was held as a symposium, in which Prof. HATHAWAY gave a keynote speech on “Rights Based Approach to the issues of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Protection”, and four panelists discussed the related issues from each perspectives. More.. for more comprehensive and analytical unerstandings of the discipline. More..	Practical Training on Human Security I	Dr. Satoshi YAMAMOTO Satoshi YAMAMOTO is Project Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. He has received his doctoral training at Nagoya University (Ph.D, 2005). His research focuses on refugee in International Law, especially on changing protection trends including activities of UNHCR. His recent works include The Provisional Rules of Procedure of the United Nations Security Council and the Council's Recent Practices (co-writed with Ikuyo HASUO et.al., Research Institute for Peace and Security, Janu- ary 2009), Concept of Refugee in International Law Studies (Discussion Paper for Peacebuilding Studies No.12, June 2008, in Japanese), and Refugees, Peace-building and Human Security in Asia (co-writed with Yasunobu SATO, Working Paper of Asian Society of International Law 2007/13, March 2007). He received Akino Yutaka Award 2008 with the research on Border Closure by FYROM (Macedonia) against Albanian Refugees from Kosovo in 1999 (by the Akino Yutaka Eurasia Fund, August 2008).	Rm.208 Bldg.8	Friday every 2wks. 16:20-19:30
Multi Agent Simulation and Human Security	Seminar on Human Security IV			Wednesday 13:00-14:30
Law and Development, and Dispute Resolution	Seminar on Human Security II	Prof. Yasunobu SATO Yasunobu Sato is Professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Program on Human Security (HSP). He holds a Ph.D in law (University of London 2000), LLM (Harvard 1989), and BA in political science (Waseda University 1982). As Attorney-at-Law (admitted in Tokyo in 1984 and in New York in 1991), he practiced law in Japan, the United States and Europe and is currently a part time advisor to the law firm Nagashima, Ohono and Tsunematsu. After working on refugee protetion, peace keeping/preacebuilding and law and judicial reform as a legal official with the following international organizations: UNHCR as legal officer in Canberra, Australia in 1991-92, UNTAC as Human Rights Officer in Cambodia in 1992-93 and EBRD as Counsel in London in 1995-97, he joined the Graduate School of International Developments at nagoya University in 1999 and then moved to the University of Tokyo in 2005. He has represented the Peace-building Study Group since 2002 and been a Council member of the Centre of International Assistance for Judicial Reform, the Committee of International Relations, Japan Federation of Bar Associations since 2006. Since April 2009, he has been Director of Center of Documentation of Refugees and Migrants, attached to HSP.	Rm.209 Bldg.8	Friday 10:40-12:10
Human Rights and Human Security	University-Wide Seminar	Prof. Yasunobu SATO Yasunobu Sato is Professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Program on Human Security (HSP). He holds a Ph.D in law (University of London 2000), LLM (Harvard 1989), and BA in political science (Waseda University 1982). As Attorney-at-Law (admitted in Tokyo in 1984 and in New York in 1991), he practiced law in Japan, the United States and Europe and is currently a part time advisor to the law firm Nagashima, Ohono and Tsunematsu. After working on refugee protetion, peace keeping/preacebuilding and law and judicial reform as a legal official with the following international organizations: UNHCR as legal officer in Canberra, Australia in 1991-92, UNTAC as Human Rights Officer in Cambodia in 1992-93 and EBRD as Counsel in London in 1995-97, he joined the Graduate School of International Developments at nagoya University in 1999 and then moved to the University of Tokyo in 2005. He has represented the Peace-building Study Group since 2002 and been a Council member of the Centre of International Assistance for Judicial Reform, the Committee of International Relations, Japan Federation of Bar Associations since 2006. Since April 2009, he has been Director of Center of Documentation of Refugees and Migrants, attached to HSP. Ms. Kanae DOI Kanae Doi, Japan Director, Human Rights Watch, works to encourage the Japanese Government to prioritize human rights in its foreign policy and practices. She also works on media outreach and the development of Human Rights Watch’s profile in Japan. More.. Guest Lecturer(s)	Rm.531 Bldg.5	Tuesday 10:40-12:10
Peace-building Studies: Disasters and Recovery Analyzed from Area Studies	Relay Seminar on Peace-bilding	Prof. Takumi MORIYAMA JCAS Japan Consortium for Area Studies is a inter-organizational network among research organizations, educational organizations, academic societies, and private organizations relating to area studies. More..	Rm.512 Bldg.5	Wednesday 16:20-17:50

About us

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Director
Prof. Yasunobu SATO

Yasunobu Sato is Professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Program on Human Security (HSP). He holds a Ph.D in law (University of London 2000), LLM (Harvard 1989), and BA in political science (Waseda University 1982). As Attorney-at-Law (admitted in Tokyo in 1984 and in New York in 1991), he practiced law in Japan, the United States and Europe and is currently a part time advisor to the law firm Nagashima, Ohono and Tsunematsu. After working on refugee protetion, peace keeping/preacebuilding and law and judicial reform as a legal official with the following international organizations: UNHCR as legal officer in Canberra, Australia in 1991-92, UNTAC as Human Rights Officer in Cambodia in 1992-93 and EBRD as Counsel in London in 1995-97, he joined the Graduate School of International Developments at nagoya University in 1999 and then moved to the University of Tokyo in 2005.

He has represented the Peace-building Study Group since 2002 and been a Council member of the Centre of International Assistance for Judicial Reform, the Committee of International Relations, Japan Federation of Bar Associations since 2006. Since April 2009, he has been Director of Center of Documentation of Refugees and Migrants, attached to HSP.
Vice-Director
Dr. Satoshi YAMAMOTO

Satoshi YAMAMOTO is Project Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. He has received his doctoral training at Nagoya University (Ph.D, 2005). His research focuses on refugee in International Law, especially on changing protection trends including activities of UNHCR.

His recent works include The Provisional Rules of Procedure of the United Nations Security Council and the Council's Recent Practices (co-writed with Ikuyo HASUO et.al., Research Institute for Peace and Security, Janu- ary 2009), Concept of Refugee in International Law Studies (Discussion Paper for Peacebuilding Studies No.12, June 2008, in Japanese), and Refugees, Peace-building and Human Security in Asia (co-writed with Yasunobu SATO, Working Paper of Asian Society of International Law 2007/13, March 2007). He received Akino Yutaka Award 2008 with the research on Border Closure by FYROM (Macedonia) against Albanian Refugees from Kosovo in 1999 (by the Akino Yutaka Eurasia Fund, August 2008).
Web Director
Dr. Takuto SAKAMOTO
DB Manager and Internship Manager
Jordan NOGAKI
DB Contents Maker
Joseph TABAGO
CDRQ

CDRQ is an open journal published quarterly basis. The aim of the journal is to disseminate information collected from research activities of CDR and related partners. It also welcomes contributions not only from academics but also from practitioners who are facing real social problems. This journal focuses on issues of movement of people basically. However the contents also include variety of related areas such as governance and conflict resolution and prevention, as these issues induce and escalate forced displacement and more longer-term movement of people. The purpose of the journal is to provide a crosscut perspectives on refugee and migrant issues with comprehensive awareness to the issues of movement of people.

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Editing Staff
Magdalena IONESCU
Secretary
Yumi Naganuma
Research Assistant
Junko MIURA
Research Assistant
Shikiko MASUTOMI

Intern(s)

Satomi HIYAMA (International Christian University, Summer of 2010)
Stephanie YASUNAGA (Harvard University, Summer of 2010)
Nara LEE (Harvard University, Summers of 2008 and 2009)

Associate(s)

Yukiko ABE
Yasuko YAMADA

Address

Postal Address: Center for Documentation of Refugees and Migrants, Rm.307, Bldg.9, The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo. 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Summer School 2011

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   CDR will host a special lecture series on refugee rights as part of the summer school. The lectures are scheduled to be held on 27, 28 and 29 September 2011. The course is co-organized with HSF, a non profit organization dedicated to human security issues.
   This year's course will focus on refugee rights; in particular, on refugees without domestic legal status -- a very serious issue facing refugees in Japan. To understand the theoretical framework of the challenges, we invited Professor James C. Hathaway, James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and Director of the University of Michigan's Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, as the guest lecturer.
   What we need to improve regarding refugee protection in Japan is, to have an adequate understanding of the situation using the rights-based approach. It requires us to be aware of the theoretical framework of the relationship between international and domestic laws of protection, as the latter is sometimes used overwhelmingly to avoid state obligations under international law. Every single country is bound by international law, but it seems to be forgotten or misread in certain situations. An asylum seeker without legal status who face the risks of discretionary detention or deportation is entitled to refugee rights; however, often times, s/he is unable to avail her/himself of such rights.
   This course is open to everyone regardless of affiliation. On the other hand, we require all the applicants to submit an essay to participate in the course.
   The working language of the course will be English, but simultaneous interpretation between English/Japanese will also be provided. We hope you will join us in a course devoted to advanced practical theory of international refugee law with one of the most eminent scholars in the field.
   For further details of the application procedure, please refer to the Course Syllabus.