Exact venue location: Kirdar Building of the Middle East Centre (MEC), entrance at 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF – access to this building is at the north side, next to the bike rack The Boardroom is on the ground floor next to the main staircase of the hallway.

Abstract:

This event aims to present the differences in attitudes to migration and patterns of discrimination among receiving society members in Japan, the UK, Colombia, and Peru towards various migrant groups in those countries. Adam Komisarof will examine the diverging criteria for social acceptance in Japanese society towards immigrants from China, Western countries, and ethnic Japanese from South America, employing frameworks of national identity and social markers of acceptance. He will also detail how this approach may be applied in other country contexts.

The fact that we are facing irreversible climate change in the twenty-first century -- not to mention our collective experience with the COVID-19 pandemic -- has woken International Relations (IR) up to the realisation that the subfield has not paid enough attention such matters. As a result, IR is much more concerned about nature now.

This paper analyses how earmarked funding affects recipient country ownership, a key aspect of the Aid Effectiveness agenda. Despite formal commitments to ownership by donor governments and multilateral institutions represented in the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), earmarked funding may undermine ownership. By strengthening accountability of international organizations to donor governments, this funding weakens the ownership of recipient countries in formulating policy objectives, using country-led results frameworks, and implementing aid through country systems.

Scholars have long recognized the dual nature of bilateral foreign aid: on the one hand, foreign aid flows are justified with reference to how they will help achieve economic development goals in aid-receiving countries; on the other hand, the provision of foreign aid supports geostrategic objectives that go beyond sustainable economic development in poor countries. These mixed motives complicate the process of generating public support for foreign aid.