Project/Area Number |
19K13890
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
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Research Institution | Waseda University |
Principal Investigator |
Hof Helena 早稲田大学, 総合研究機構, その他(招聘研究員) (20837207)
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Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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Keywords | migration / labour market / Japan / Singapore / mobility / global cities / 外国人高度人材 / 労働市場 / 移民 / 社会学 / 人類学 / グローバル都市 / ダイバーシティー / Japanese labor market / skilled migration / sociology / comparative research |
Outline of Research at the Start |
This project investigates global talents’ work experiences in Tokyo, Singapore and Sao Paulo in order to reveal the dynamics behind Japan’s difficulties to attract and retain global talents. The comparative analysis will concentrate on narratives of delayed career progression and experiences of marginality. It explores 1) how ethnicity, gender and multilingualism (Singapore) versus monolingualism (Tokyo and Sao Paulo) 2) and differing national human resource practices influence the understanding of foreigners’ experiences as well as organizations’ ability to integrate them.
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Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the fiscal year 2022, the project reached a milestone: The author published a monograph with the title “The EU migrant generation in Asia. Middle-class aspirations in Asian global cities.” The book was published in the series Global Migration and Social Change with Bristol University Press, a series that is well-known among sociologists and migration scholars and which features several titles on Asia-Pacific, including another monograph on Japan. With publication in December 2022, most of the research during the year revolved around the completion of the analysis of the follow-up data collected in Singapore and Japan in 2020 and 2021, and the writing, editing, and discussion of final drafts of the manuscript. While working towards the publication of the book, the author discussed selected findings with experts on migration policy, race and ethnicity in migration, and methodologies in migration studies in several countries. Most importantly, the PI was invited by Prof. Shanshan Lan to a workshop at the University of Amsterdam, where she presented her theorizing on ethnicity and race in skilled migration and whose conference proceedings will include a book chapter in an edited volume (Open Access) with intended publication date in 2024.
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Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The pandemic has affected mobility even in 2022, which meant that the PI was only able to visit Japan and to discuss her research with experts in the field in January 2023. During this visit, the PI was invited to present her book at two different academic institutions (Waseda University and Temple University Japan Campus) and was also invited to deliver a guest lecture about her research to a Bachelor student seminar in sociology at International Christian University. Since pandemic-related restrictions are meanwhile being lifted in most countries, the researcher expects to present her research outcomes in the fiscal year 2023 at a range of academic institutions and events across Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The current, final year of the project will be used for disseminating the research findings via additional publications in peer-reviewed journal articles and as chapters in edited volumes, and by presentations at academic conferences, as well as by teaching at the PI’s home institution, the University of Zurich. Next to the above mentioned book chapter, the PI is currently co-authoring two journal articles. Furthermore, the researcher is actively approaching established academic journals in the field seeking reviews of her published monograph as to guarantee wide dissemination of the project findings.
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