Publications A research paper comparing the experience of Central and East European migrants in Japan and UK has been published in a special issue of Comparative Migration Studies focusing on the diversity in UK and Japan. The paper is a result of collaborative work with Dr. Špela Drnovšek Zorko of the University of Warwick (UK) […]
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Previous research on Europeans in Japan
This post introduces my previous research on European migration to Japan which is summarized in my latest book Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism – Europeans in Japan published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. About the book This book analyzes the increase in contemporary European migration to Japan, its causes and the lives of Europeans in Japan. […]
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Webinar: Contemporary European Migrants in Japan
This online seminar focuses on different aspects of contemporary European migration to Japan. Despite being still a largely overlooked pattern of the so-called new-comer migration to Japan, the number of Europeans living in Japan has increased more than three times since early 1990s and involves various migration patterns and flows (Debnar 2016). This event represents […]
Project Q&A
This post attempts to answer some basic questions about the project, such as why is the project important, who can become part of it or whether the Europeans are actually migrants. Why is it important? Despite the rising numbers of people from Western countries moving to and settling in Japan, we still know very few […]
Europeans in Japan – basic information
This post provides some quick facts and numbers about European population residing in Japan based on official statistics. Quick facts There are about 75,000 European nationals living in Japan (by 2018) Their number has more than tripled between years 1988 and 2016 Most of the Europeans in Japan come from the UK (about 18,000) followed […]