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Staying or leaving? Choices of further mobility or settlement of European migrants in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K13895
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
Research InstitutionRyukoku University

Principal Investigator

DEBNAR Milos  龍谷大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (90735292)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2025-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywordsmigration / Japan / Europe / whiteness / return / skilled migration / white migration / return migration / settlement
Outline of Research at the Start

本研究は社会学的な観点から、日本に滞在経験を持つヨーロッパ人の移動と定住の選択に着目する。とりわけ、日本に滞在し続けた対象者とヨーロッパへ戻った元日本滞在者の経験を比較し、賃金格差やキャリア、またはその他の構造的要因(年金制度など)に加え、様々な資本(特に移動資本)、文化的要因(日本文化・社会の好感度等)、社会的要因(差別経験等)を取り上げて分析し、決定プロセスとその要因を明らかにすることを目的にする。また、このような要因とそれに伴う移動・定住の選択は、従来の日本への移住選択とどう関係し、作用しているかにも注目する。

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

The main research activity in this year was focused on the analysis of the acquired data and presenting the results. Frist, the experience of whiteness by migrants in Japan before and during the pandemic was further analysed. Diverging experiences of white individuals in Japan emphasize the increasing diversity of positions such migrants occupy and their everyday experience of whiteness requires nuanced analysis and focus on intersections with other identities, such as class and gender. These findings were published in one publication and the analysis of the experience during the pandemic was used for an international collaborative project that is expected to finish next year.
Secondly, a further analysis of the decisions to stay or leave Japan was conducted, particularly focusing on the role of class and its intersections with whiteness. Some of the results were partially used for the abovementioned project as well, and were summarized separately for a major international conference.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.

Reason

Delays in the project caused by the pandemic led to postponing of the fieldwork and extension of the project for one year. In order to finalize the analysis of acquired data and summarizing findings for publishing, another extension is required.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

The final year will be dedicated to finalizing the analysis and summarizing the results of previously acquired qualitative and quantitative data for further publication.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2023 Research-status Report
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (25 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (7 results) Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (11 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 4 results) Remarks (3 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Amsterdam(オランダ)

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Vienna(オーストリア)

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Amsterdam(オランダ)

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Vienna(オーストリア)

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Warwick/University of Birmingham(英国)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Warwick(英国)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Warwick/University of Birmingham(英国)

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] White European migrants in Japan-between an unmarked category and racialized subjects2023

    • Author(s)
      Milos Debnar
    • Journal Title

      Andreassen, Lundstrom, Keskinen, Tate eds., "The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies"

      Volume: Routledge Pages: 364-375

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Privileged, Highly Skilled and Unproblematic? White Europeans in Japan as Migrants2022

    • Author(s)
      Debnar Milos
    • Journal Title

      Sylvain Beck ed. "Expatriation and Migration: Two Faces of the Same Coin", Brill

      Volume: NA Pages: 41-66

    • DOI

      10.1163/9789004529526_004

    • ISBN
      9789004529526, 9789004529502
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK2021

    • Author(s)
      Drnovsek Zorko Spela、Debnar Milos;
    • Journal Title

      Comparative Migration Studies

      Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-17

    • DOI

      10.1186/s40878-021-00239-z

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Role of Class in Shaping Decisions to Move, Stay and Leave - Case of European Migrants in Japan (distributed paper)2023

    • Author(s)
      Milos Debnar
    • Organizer
      XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Aspirations and capabilities of further mobility among middle-class European migrants to Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Milos Debnar
    • Organizer
      Forschungskolloquium, Japan-Zentrum, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Locating the complexity of whiteness in the migration context of Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Milos Debnar
    • Organizer
      Researching Whiteness in a Transnational Pandemic Context, University of Amsterdam
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Diversity and integration of Europeans in Japan - the role of whiteness and conceptual issues2022

    • Author(s)
      Milos Debnar
    • Organizer
      Open and closed societies: historical reasons and modern consequences of inequality in Japan and Europe, University of Tartu
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Superdiversity and racialization in different context: Central and Eastern Europeans in the UK and Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Milos Debnar
    • Organizer
      Looking back to look forward: Celebrating 10 Years of Research on Migration, Forced Displacement and Superdiversity
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Staying or leaving? Return and settlement decisions of European migrants to Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Milos Debnar
    • Organizer
      RE:MIGRATION - Nordic Migration Research Conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Meanings of Japan as destination and meaning of migration for contemporary Europeans in Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Milos Debnar
    • Organizer
      European Association for Japanese Studies Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Europeans in Japan - a patchwork of social positions2020

    • Author(s)
      Milos Debnar
    • Organizer
      Association for Asian Studies, AAS-in-Asia 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Covid-19, travel restrictions and long-term plans of foreign residents in Japan - the case of middle-class European migrants2020

    • Author(s)
      Milos Debnar
    • Organizer
      ICU Peace and COVID-19, Foreign residents in the age of COVID-19
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Beyond the traditional diversity of migration: Europeans in Japan as ‘migrants’2019

    • Author(s)
      Milos DEBNAR;
    • Organizer
      New and old migrations and diversities in UK and Japan
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Europeans in Japan as strangers: Role of whiteness, gender and cultural capital in the integration2019

    • Author(s)
      Milos DEBNAR;
    • Organizer
      ICAS 11, University of Leiden
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] Europeans in Japan – staying or leaving?

    • URL

      https://project.sociology-in-kyoto.net/

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Europeans in Japan - staying or leaving?

    • URL

      https://project.sociology-in-kyoto.net/

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report 2021 Research-status Report 2020 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Europeans in Japan - staying or leaving?

    • URL

      http://project.sociology-in-kyoto.net/

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Webinar: Contemporary European Migrants in Japan2020

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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