Rosalia Avila‐Tàpies

• PhD (Kyoto University)　京都大学博士（文学）
• Director of the Centre Cultural Barcelona-CCB バルセロナ文化センター at Centre Cultural Barcelona-CCB バルセロナ文化センタ―

The formation of the Japanese colonial empire entailed major population movements and important socio-economic and territorial impacts in East Asia. These were particularly relevant in Manchuria, where important Japanese immigration also occurred, especially after the establishment of Japanese-sponsored Manchukuo in 1932. This paper focuses on the...

Davallada demogràfi ca i noves polítiques natalistes al Japó. El descens continuat de la natalitat i la fecunditat és una dinàmica en la que convergeixen els països desenvolupats. Una societat que s'ha caracteritzat per ser pionera pel que fa a la rapidesa del procés és la japonesa, que des del 2010 perd població a un ritme cada cop més accelerat....

Homenatge pòstum al professor japonès Ko TAZAWA (1953-2022), considerat la figura capdavantera dels estudis catalans al Japó, especialment pel que fa a la llengua i la literatura catalana, i un pont d´entesa entre el Japó i Catalunya.

With the beginning of the 21st century, there has been an acceleration of migratory flows from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to Europe. As a result, and despite the negative impact of the economic crisis, 4.6 million Latin American and Caribbean immigrants reside in Europe, half of them in Spain. This article analyses the recent evolution o...

En Europa, la inmigración originada en Latinoamérica y el Caribe se configuró como uno de los principales flujos inmigratorios durante los años previos a la crisis económica, especialmente en los países receptores que mantenían lazos históricos y diaspóricos con la zona de origen. En este contexto, se analiza la evolución de las migraciones de Lati...

Fluctuations in internal migration flows have been closely associated with changes in economic processes. However, foreign immigrants’ spatial responses to changing national economic conditions have not yet been sufficiently studied. This paper aims to analyse the impact of the Spanish economic downturn on Latin American immigrants’ mobility by exa...

España acoge a alrededor de 2,4 millones de latinoamericanos, poco más de la mitad de la diáspora latinoamericana en Europa. Tras la aceleración de los flujos migratorios durante los primeros años del presente siglo, la recesión económica producida por la crisis global frena la entrada de nuevos inmigrantes y modifica las pautas demográficas y migr...

The past annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers held in San Francisco (2016 AAG Annual Meeting) consolidated its position as the busiest geographic event in the world, with more than nine thousand attendants, 37% of them arrived from abroad. The meeting reflected the academic interest in population issues and the Latin American s...

Resumen: En correspondencia con el incremento de la movilidad humana, en tiempos recientes se han reforzado los movimientos pendulares de los flujos transoceánicos protagonizados por los latinoamericanos. A una intensa emigración, propia de la última década del siglo XX e inicios del XXI, le sucedió un significativo retorno durante la crisis financ...

Figure included in page 70 of the following chapter: Avila-Tàpies, Rosalia. 2016. Expanding the Japanese empire to the Manchurian frontier: Immigration and ethnicity in the South Manchuria Railway towns. In Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800, ed. J. Moreno Tejada and B. Tatar, 65-81. Oxon-New York: Routledge.

This chapter examines the imperial Japan’s territoriality in Manchuria and the morphology of its inter-ethnic relations. Particularly, it focuses on the South Manchuria Railway towns, which were planned and administrated by Japan’s South Manchuria Railway Company from 1907 to 1937. They were the main residential districts of the Japanese colonist u...

Este estudio intenta clarificar los patrones espaciales de las migraciones interprovinciales y sus cambios durante los últimos veinte años. La fuente de datos utilizada corresponde a los datos anuales sobre las migraciones recogidos por el instituto nacional de estadística para los años 1967-68-69, 1977-78-79 y 1987-88-89. Los datos originales pres...

Las migraciones internacionales históricas y contemporáneas con relación a Japón se han estudiado a través de la revisión bibliográfica de los artículos que sobre el tema se han publicado en la revista International Migration Review (imr) desde su inicio. Primeramente, y a modo de preámbulo, se examina aquí el fenómeno migratorio japonés de forma g...

In the late 1980s, both Japan and Spain revised their legislation to confer preferential immigration rights to citizens from former colonies or their own diasporic descendants based on historical, cultural or ethnic belonging to the ancestral homeland. During the economic crisis, Spain, in 2008, and Japan, in 2009, reversed their policies through a...

Oral presentation defended in the International Conference on Population Geographies, Brisbane 30 June – 3 July 2015, available onto the Queensland Centre for Population Research website http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/icpg-presentations

The effects of the severe economic crisis undergone by Spain during the past few years have abruptly influenced immigrants’ internal migration patterns. The economic downturn has changed the precedent population dynamics. Thus, while new arrivals have declined, as well as the internal migration during the early stages of insertion into Spain, the p...

Within the context of recent epistemological and methodological turns in geography and social sciences, this paper explores the use of autobiographical narratives in international migration research and learning through the analysis of three books written by Japanese returnees from the Canary Islands (Spain). These narratives were interpreted by fo...

Over the past 20 years, the theoretical frameworks of population mobility studies have undergone profound changes. The redefinition of the term diaspora, the rise of transnational analysis, the formulation of the embodied experiences of migration, the increasing interest in migrants' attachment to places, gendered expectations and transcultural pro...

Since the late XIX century, the former territory of Manchuria became one of the greatest migration grounds of the world and the most important overseas destination for the Japanese. In the context of a renewed scholarly interest in Japanese imperialism, especially from a social and cultural perspective, we will reflect herein on the geopolitical st...

Resumen Durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, el antiguo territorio de Manchuria en el nordeste de China se convirtió en una de las mayores áreas de asentamiento del mundo y el destino exterior más importante para los japoneses. En este artículo se analiza el impacto del colonialismo y la migración asociada a éste, especialmente en relación con la...

The transcultural experiences and the sense of place have acquired an important prominence in the present day Geography. This article deals with the perceptions, feelings and transformations of three Japanese subjects in the process of strangement that they feel during their stay in the Canary Islands. The narrative of their experiences, depicted i...

BUILDING FRIENDSHIP NETWORKS AND INTERCULTURAL SPACES: THE CASE OF JAPANESE WOMEN IN SPAIN This study examines the associationism of Japanese women living in Spain who are members of the Tanpopo-no-kai/ Sociedad Tanpopo, and their intercultural experiences through their written personal narratives. This associationism has resulted in attempts to...

Japanese immigration and interculturality in Spain: The case of “Tanpopo Society”. This study examines the associational involvement of Japanese women living in Spain who are members of the Tanpopo Society and their new transcultural social spaces. This associational involvement has resulted in attempts to create a social network and space for int...

Este artículo examina la idea de la planificación participativa del machizukuri, nuevo paradigma planificatorio japonés. El origen del machizukuri participativo se encuentra en los años sesenta y setenta, en las demandas ciudadanas en favor de la protección del medioambiente, de la mejora del bienestar colectivo y de una mayor participación en la g...

El profesor Keiichi Takeuchi falleció en Tokio el pasado mes de Junio. Profesor de geografía y catedrático emérito de la Universidad de Hitotsubashi, Keiichi Takeuchi realizó una contribución única a la historia del pensamiento geográfico y a la geografía social japonesa. Estudió geografía en la universidades de Tokio y Milán, siendo un académico r...

1 Rosalia AVILA TAPIES A b s t r a c t : In this article, the causes of the residential segregation between the Japanese and the Chinese in the cities of the South Manchuria Railway Zone are analyed. These cities were built and administered by the South Manchuria Railway Company (Mantetsu) between the years 1907 and 1937. The Chinese and Japanese w...

During the first globalization revolution provoked during the era of European colonialism, very different ideas, products, and ethnic groups came into worldwide contact. The colonizing activity of the Japanese empire mobilized a large and varied population; it internationalized the labour market of eastern Asia, founded cities and also created mult...

On the 70th anniversary of the creation of the state of Manchukuo, this article analyses the Japanese immigration to the northeast of China (Manchuria), from its initiation at the beginning of the 20th century until 1945. As of 1932, with the creation of the state of Manchukuo, the migratory current towards Manchuria grew very important and became...

Japanese historical migration to Manchuria: notes and documentation (La emigración histórica japonesa a Manchuria: estado de la cuestión y documentación) During the first half of the twentieth century the former territory of Manchuria in Northeast China became one of the greatest settlement areas of the world and the most important foreign destin...

Abstract: Japanese domestic migrations (Migraciones interiores en Japón) Spatial patterns of migration within Japan are examined here by applying Principal Components Analysis, using varimax rotation, to interprefectural migration data issued by the Japanese Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency, in its annual report on migration. T...

There are many studies on Japanese internal migration, however the movements of foreigners living in Japan have not been studied specifically until now, in part due to data unavailability. This study tries to clarify the in- and out-migration patterns of the Japanese and foreign population living in the centre of a metropolis, selecting as a resear...

Este estudio intenta clarificar los patrones espaciales de las migraciones interprovinciales y sus cambios durante los últimos veinte años. La fuente de datos utilizada corresponde a los datos anuales sobre las migraciones recogidos por el instituto nacional de estadística para los años 1967-68-69, 1977-78-79 y 1987-88-89. Los datos originales pres...