Aimi Muranaka

 

► Research Interests
 
  • Transnationalization
  • Japan
  • international migration to Japan
  • Japanese labor market

► Recent Publications

Hof, Helena, Aimi Muranaka and Joohyun Justine Park (2024). "Employment as an anchor: The prospects of emerging East Asian skilled migration regimes through the lens of migrants’ access to the labor market". Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. DOI: 10.1177/01171968241292376

Muranaka, Aimi (2024). "Perks or burdens? Being “nearly (im)mobile” as IT foreign professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan". Contemporary Japan. DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2024.2410556

Wang, Aeneas Zi, Aimi Muranaka and Florian Coulmas (2024). "Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies. How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany?" Routledge.

Muranaka, Aimi (2024): “Being a Foreigner During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Researcher Positionality in Online Interviews”. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-25.1.4075

Muranaka, Aimi (2023): “ ‘Framing’ and ‘Packaging’ of Foreign Skilled Workers: Diversity of the Intermediary Actors in the Cross-Border Labour Market Between Japan and Vietnam”. Globalizations, 20(4). DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2023.2165376

Tran, Huy An and Aimi Muranaka (2022): ”Editorial – Transnational Flows of Contemporary Asia: Trends and Futures”. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia. 162/163: 7–14.

Muranaka, Aimi (2022): “Brokerage in the Cross-border Labour Market: Recruitment and Training of Vietnamese IT Workers by Japanese Temporary Staffing Firms”. Asian Studies ReviewDOI: 10.1080/10357823.2022.2093836

Muranaka, Aimi (2022): “Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross-border labour market between Japan and Vietnam”. Global Networks, 22(3): 514–529. DOI: 10.1111/glob.12356

► Current Research Project: Dissemination-focused events, based on outcomes of the 2024-year workshop Comparative Perspectives on the Transformation of the Japanese Labor Market through International Skilled Migration  (Aimi Muranaka with Dr. Helena Hof, University of Zurich)

Funded by the Toshiba International Foundation, 2025

► Previous Research Project: Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia (QuaMaFA)

BMBF-funded, 03/2021–02/2025

Trailer of the QuaMaFA documentary film Home in the Making
Director: Megha Wadhwa
Research and Camera: Megha Wadhwa, Ruth Achenbach, Helena Hof, Aimi Muranaka and Joohyun Justine Park

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