The project consisted of the following segments that began in 2006 and continued through 2009:
- Wind over Water: Understanding East Asian Migration. Academic panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, Canada; March 2006.
- Marriage Out of Place. Academic panel at the biennial meeting of the Society for East Asian Anthropology. Hong Kong; July 2006.
- Transnational Movement of People in East Asia: Japan in Comparative Focus. Two-day symposium at the National Museum of Ethnology. Osaka, Japan; May 2007. Program.
- East Asia in Motion: A Comparative Perspective to Transnational Migration. Academic panel at the annual meeting of the Japan Society of Cultural Anthropology. Nagoya, Japan; June 2007.
- Migration Policy and Human Security. Workshop at the University of Tokyo; June 2007.
- Wind over Water: An Anthropology of Migration in an East Asian Setting. Two-day workshop at the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley; November 2008. Program. Overview.
- Wind over Water: An Anthropology of Migration from an East Asian Setting. Presidential/executive invited session for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, California; November 2008.
- Series of three panels at the 2008 Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Conference. Beppu, Japan; December 2008. Program. Video.
- East Asian Migration: Implications for Development and Diversity. Academic session (four panels) at the International Congress of the Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Kunming, China; July 2009. Program. Abstracts.