Aimi
Muranaka

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Education services and training opportunities

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Private companies and business
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International

• UN Countries

  • Japan
  • Viet Nam