2024 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Determinants of International Students' Educational Mobility: a Comparative Study of Japan and Germany
| Project/Area Number |
23K20689
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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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)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
杉村 美紀 上智大学, 総合人間科学部, 教授 (60365674)
黒田 一雄 早稲田大学, 国際学術院(アジア太平洋研究科), 教授 (70294600)
加藤 丈太郎 武庫川女子大学, 文学部, 講師 (80897596)
Asada Sarah 共立女子大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (90806978)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2024-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Keywords | student mobility / international education / Germany / Japan / determinants / mobility process |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In 2024, the main effort of this project was in analyzing data and producing research outcomes. The project has yield a large number of interviews and we transcribes, translated, and organized them into usable and sharable data set. We also started to use the data to produce research outputs. During 2024, not only did faculty members of this project actively participated in international conferences and produce journal articles and book chapters, the graduate student research assistants involved in this project were also encouraged to use the data collected to author or co-author conference papers and journal publications. (Please refer to the list of publications and international conferences.) Currently, a special issue on international student mobility is under review at Journal of Immigration and Refugee Studies. Two research assistants have submitted papers respectively on Vietnamese students in Japan (single authored) and international students in Germany (co-authored with PI).
In addition, the PI submitted papers based on this data set in the academic year of 2024 and has been invited to present at two international conferences in 2025, including 2025 Annual Conference of the Australian Studies Association of Japan (Tokyo) in June, and American Sociological Association Annual Conference (Chicago) in August.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
We originally planned to wrap up the project in 2024. However, due to several reasons, the completion of the project delayed and we decided to extent for another year.
1) The principle investigator was invited to participate in two additional projects funded by European Research Council and JICA respectively. Because of the demand of effort from the other projects, the time spent on this project was reduced.
2)We originally planned to finalize our project with a symposium. However, there were important career mobilities among the project members, including one taking up university leadership position and another moving from one university to another. Such career mobilities consumed time and energy, and made it difficult to coordinate time to the symposium.
3) Because of the amount of interview data, we felt that we needed more time to analyze and utilize it. It is better to delay a year and produce more research outputs.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The project will wrap up in 2025. The main effort during this year will be utilizing the data for publications. We have been coordinating among members to decide who will focus on what segments of the data for journal articles. The principle investigator is also considering the possibility of a book based on this project.
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| Causes of Carryover |
This year we originally planned to have a symposium to complete the project. However, due to scheduling difficulty, we were not able to hold the symposium. The team decides to extent one year in order to use the funding more economically and for maximum productivity. In the extended year, we will devote the funding to data analysis and publication.
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