Details of a Researcher
Updated on 2026/08/26
Waseda University Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Assistant Professor
University of Duisburg-Essen Research Associate
Sophia University SRO Research Institutes Division Institute of Comparative Culture Visiting Scholar
University of Duisburg-Essen Institute of East Asian Studies Post-doc for a funded project
University of Duisburg-Essen Institute of East Asian Studies Research Associate
University of Duisburg-Essen Institute of East Asian Studies
Ph.D.
Waseda University Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies
Visiting Scholar
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Master
Paris Institute of Political Studies
Exchange program
Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies
移民政策学会
European Association for Southeast Asian Studies
Alliance for Research on East Asia Ruhr
IMISCOE(International Migration Research Network)
European Association for Japanese Studies
mobilities
migration infrastructure
international skilled migration
international migration
Highly Educated Migration to 21st-Century Japan
Aimi Muranaka
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies 2026.04
Muranaka, A.
Globalizations 20 ( 4 ) 2023.05
Editorial - Transnational Flows of Contemporary Asia: Trends and Futures
Aimi Muranaka
The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 2022.12
Labour Crossings Brokering Skilled Migrants from Vietnam to Japan
Aimi Muranaka( Part： Sole author)
Palgrave Macmillan 2026 ISBN: 9789819588862
Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany?
( Part： Other)
2024
Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany?
Aeneas Zi Wang, Aimi Muranaka, Florian Coulmas( Part： Joint editor, 1. Attractive immigrants or attractive for immigrants? Two ageing societies and migration)
2024 ISBN: 9781032545394
Work at Home? Transnational (Dis)embedding Practices Among Vietnamese IT Professionals in Japan
Aimi Muranaka
Presentation date： 2026.07
The Production of Migratory Careers: An Integrative Approach to Skilled Migration in Asia
Helena Hof, Aimi Muranaka, Joohyun Justine Park
Migratory Trajectories: Evolving Careers Across Borders and Time
Presentation date： 2025.08
Researchers Being Researched? Co-Constructed Relationship Between Migration Researcher and Migrants in the Post-COVID-19 Time
22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference
Presentation date： 2025.07
Making of Remote Work Among Vietnamese IT Professionals in Japan in the Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Time
Aimi Muranaka [Invited]
Recalibrating 'Skill' in Changing Immigration Regimes: Skilled Migrants and the Nature of Work in Asia
Presentation date： 2025.01
Staying as a Stepping-Stone for Upward Career Mobility? Study on the (Im)Mobilities of Vietnamese Skilled Migrants in the IT Sector in Japan
Aimi Muranaka
Presentation date： 2024.11
Aspiring to Stay? Prolonged Stay-ing Processes of High-Skilled Migrants in Japan
Aimi Muranaka [Invited]
Kobe Migration Research Center (KoMiReC)
Presentation date： 2024.11
Research Symposium on Skilled Migrants in Japan: From the Joint Research Project 'Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia (QuaMaFA)
Helena Hof, Aimi Muranaka [Invited]
MICCS (Multiculturalism and Intersectionality in Complex Cities)
Presentation date： 2024.11
Aspiring to Leave but Prolonged Stay(ing) of International Skilled Migrants: Reconsidering the Drivers of Leaving and Staying Among Vietnamese IT Professionals in the Japanese Economy
Aimi Muranaka
2024 Global Mobility Humanities Conference
Presentation date： 2024.10
Employment as an Anchor: The Prospects of Emerging East Asian Skilled Migration Regimes Through the Lens of Migrants' Access to the Labor Market
Helena Hof, Aimi Muranaka, Joohyun Justine Park [Invited]
Presentation date： 2024.10
Sticking to Norms While Sticking Out? Study on Vietnamese Female IT Professionals in Japan
Aimi Muranaka
InZentIM Working Lab
Presentation date： 2024.10
Socially constructed labels as control or facilitating factors? A study on the labour mobility of Vietnamese IT professionals in Japan
International Political Economy of Labor Migration
Presentation date： 2024.07
Prolonged migration trajectory of Vietnamese IT professionals in Japan
European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Conference
Presentation date： 2024.07
Buchpräsentation durch die Autoren [Book Presentation]: Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies. How Attractive for Migrants Are Japan and Germany?
Florian Coulmas, Aimi Muranaka
Presentation date： 2024.06
Pressured by Time? Study of Japanese Brokers Mobilising Vietnamese IT Professionals and Employers in the Uncertain Time
Workshop Conceptualising Migration Brokerage in (Im)mobile time
Presentation date： 2024.04
Sticking to norms or sticking out? Agency of Vietnamese female skilled migrants in the IT sector in Japan
[Invited]
AREA Ruhr Occasional Lecture Series
Presentation date： 2024.03
Being a Foreigner During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Researcher Positionality During Online Interviews
[Invited]
Workshop Connectivities, Ecologies, Engagements: Recrafting Mobilities in the 2020s
Presentation date： 2023.09
Navigating the (working) Life in Japan: Study on Vietnamese IT Professionals in the Japanese Labour Market
[Invited]
Mini- Symposium Vietnamese Migrant Workers in Japan and the UK
Presentation date： 2023.07
The Myth of Mid-Skilled Vietnamese Migrants as 'Shin-Nichi (親日)'? A Study of Mid-Skilled Vietnamese Migrants' Participation in the Japanese Labour Market
Aimi Muranaka [Invited]
Presentation date： 2023.06
(Un)Expected Return? the Study on the Vietnamese IT Professionals Mobilities and Japanese Private Intermediaries
XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
Presentation date： 2023.06
Unlocking Potential: A Comparison of Labour Market Integration of Skilled Migrants in South Korea and Japan
Aimi Muranaka with Dr. Joohyun Justine Park [Invited]
FOR APAC Lecture Series Agorá
Presentation date： 2023.03
Innovative Approaches in Transnational Migration Studies: Discussing Mixed-Method and Multi-Sited Research Designs
Ruth Achenbach, Helena Hof, Aimi Muranaka, Joohyun Justine Park, Dr. Megha Wadhwa
AAS (Association for Asian Studies) Annual Conference
Presentation date： 2022.06
Strategic Accumulation of 'Skills' in the Cross-Border Labour Migration of Vietnamese IT Workers in Japan
Aimi Muranaka
19th IMISCOE Annual Conference
Presentation date： 2022.06
Purchase When the Field Is Still Green? Capital Mobilities and Cross-Border Skilled Labour Market Between Japan and Vietnam
Aimi Muranaka
16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies
Presentation date： 2021.08
Producing Skills: Structuring Skilled Vietnamese Workers by Educational Institutions and Intermediaries
Aimi Muranaka
12th International Convention of Asia Scholars "Crafting a Global Future"
Presentation date： 2021.08
Labour Crossings: The Making of Cross-Border Labour Markets Between Japan and Vietnam," Guest Lecture Series
Aimi Muranaka [Invited]
Presentation date： 2021.06
Sourcing Foreign Skilled Labour via Cross-Border Training: Study of Japanese Temporary Staffing Firms' Recruitment and Training of Vietnamese IT Skilled Workers
Aimi Muranaka
Biennial DGA Conference "Transnational Asian Studies – Multi-Level Dynamics of Identity Formation and Institution Building"
Presentation date： 2021.03
Organizing Cross-Border Labor Market Between Japan and Vietnam: Roles of Intermediary Companies
Aimi Muranaka
New Directions in Labor Migration in Europe and the Asia-Pacific
Presentation date： 2019.12
Who Moves in the Cross-Border Labor Market? Study of Cross-Border Labor Market Between Japan and Vietnam
Aimi Muranaka
Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies (OMICS)
Presentation date： 2019.11
Cross-Border Recruitment: Mobilities of Migrant Workers and Intermediaries from a Case Study of the Transnational Labor Market of Skilled Workers Between Japan and Vietnam
Aimi Muranaka
11th International Convention of Asia Scholars
Presentation date： 2019.07
Dissemination-focused events (conference presentation and writing workshop for Special Issue), based on outcomes of the 2024-year workshop "Comparative perspectives on the transformation of the Japanese labor market through international skilled migration"
Toshiba International Foundation（TIFO）
Project Year :
Helena Hof, Aimi Muranaka
Organization of the workshop "Comparative perspectives on the transformation of the Japanese labor market through international skilled migration"
Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO)
Project Year :
Helena Hof
Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia (QuaMaFA): The role of Japanese intermediaries and language schools in the integration of Vietnamese skilled workers in the IT-sector in Japan
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) "Kleine Fächer (Small Disciplines)"
Project Year :
Organization of the international conference "VSJF Conference 2023"
German Research Foundation (DFG) International Scientific Events and Annual Conferences of Scientific and Academic Associations
Project Year :
Ruth Achenbach, Helena Hof, Joohyun Justine Park, Megha Wadhwa
Organization of the VSJF Conference
Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO)
Project Year :
Ruch Achenbach, Helena Hof, Joohyun Justine Park, Megha Wadhwa
Qualitative Research Methods II
Waseda University, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
Qualitative Research Methods I
Waseda University, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
Conducting qualitative research in contemporary Japan and beyond
University of Duisburg-Essen
(Un)changing work and employment in contemporary Japan
University of Duisburg-Essen
IN-EAST Research Forum: Diversifying Immigrant Societies in (East) Asia
University of Duisburg-Essen
IN-EAST Research Forum: Labor, mobility and migration of (East) Asia
University of Duisburg-Essen
International Migration in Contemporary Japan
University of Duisburg-Essen
International Migration in Japan
University of Duisburg-Essen
Social Content Analysis using Official and media Source – Gender Research
University of Duisburg-Essen
International Migration in Japan
University of Duisburg-Essen
International Migration in Japan
University of Duisburg-Essen
Methods of Transnational Research
University of Duisburg-Essen
Faculty of International Research and Education Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies
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