Making transnational labor markets: an economic sociological study of Indonesian healthcare workers' migration to Japan, Germany and Taiwan

• Project/Area Number: 25K05523
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: FARRER GRACIA 早稲田大学, 国際学術院(アジア太平洋研究科), 教授 (70436062)
• Project Period (FY): 2025-04-01 – 2029-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2025)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000); Fiscal Year 2028: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2027: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2026: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: transnational labor / International migration / labor market / Indonesia / healthcare worker

Outline of Research at the Start

This project investigates the determinants and processes of Indonesian healthcare workers' migration into three different countries--Japan, Taiwan and Germany, and examines how their careers are constructed through migration into these different destinations. This study takes an economic sociology approach to international labor migration and sees the labor mobility as taking place on a transnational labor market. In the research, we try to identify the range of actors and their activities in shaping such labor markets, and consequently affecting migrants' career and mobility outcomes.