Updated on 2026/10/04

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KUROKAWA, Chiemi
 
Affiliation
Affiliated organization, Research Innovation Center
Job title
Assistant Professor(non-tenure-track)
Degree
Master of Education ( 2013.03 Hiroshima University )
Doctor of Philosophy in Education ( 2023.03 Hiroshima University )

Research Experience

  • 2026.04
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    Now

    Waseda University   Research Innovation Center   Assistant Professor

  • 2023.04
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    2026.03

    JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  • 2024.04
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    2025.03

    Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University

  • 2021.04
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    2023.03

    JSPS Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  • 2017.01
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    2019.01

    Researcher, Embassy of Japan in Sudan

Education Background

  • 2019.10
    -
    2023.03

    Hiroshima University   Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation  

  • 2011.04
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    2013.03

    Hiroshima University   Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation  

Committee Memberships

  • 2026.07
    -
    Now

    Japan Comparative Education Society  Research Committee

  • 2025.01
    -
    2026.07

    日本比較教育学会  紀要編集委員会編集幹事

  • 2023.04
    -
    2026.07

    Japan Comparative Education Society  Public relations committee

  • 2023.09
    -
    2024.03

    Comparative and International Education Society  New Scholars Committee

  • 2021.09
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    2022.04

    Comparative and International Education Society  Finance, New Scholars Committee

Professional Memberships

  • 2021.12
    -
    Now

    Comparative and International Education Society

  • 2021
    -
    Now

    日本移民学会

  • 2020
    -
    Now

    Comparative Education Society of Asia

  • 2019
    -
    Now

    the Japan Society for International Development

  • 2018
    -
    Now

    Japan Comparative Education Society

Research Areas

  • Education   Comparative education / Area studies   アフリカ / Area studies   イスラーム
 

Papers

  • Muslim parental school choice and the negotiation of religious identity and social belonging in Muslim-minority societies: narratives from suburban Maryland, the United States

    Chiemi Kurokawa, Hagar Ibrahim, Tatsuya Kusakabe

    Cogent Education   13 ( 1 )  2026.07  [Refereed]

    DOI

  • Reversing brain drain to brain gain: Examining the drive of educated Sudanese migrants to return and contribute to their home country

    Chiemi Kurokawa, Tatsuya Kusakabe

    International Journal of Educational Development    2025.09  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

    DOI

    Scopus

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    Citation
    (Scopus)

  • Brain Gain of Highly Skilled Sudanese Migrants and Refugees: The Fluctuating Intentions to Return and Contribute to their Home Country

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    Comparative Education   ( 68 ) 2 - 22  2024  [Refereed]

  • Sudan's brain gain: what motivates the intention of skilled Sudanese in Japan to return and contribute to their home country

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    Journal of International Cooperation in Education    2023.03  [Refereed]

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    Purpose

    This paper examines the drivers of brain gain by investigating the motivations of migrants who plan to return and contribute to their home country. It focuses on highly skilled Sudanese migrants in Japan, including a group of “plan-to-return” migrants (P-group), who intend to gain knowledge abroad that they will use to contribute to their homeland upon their return.

    Design/methodology/approach

    The participants are 24 highly skilled Sudanese migrants in Japan, 10 of whom are part of the P-group. To understand their motivation to contribute to their home country, the study applies the qualitative life course approach, using Elder's four life course themes: lives in time and space, the timing of lives, linked lives and human agency.

    Findings

    The P-group is characterised by a high level of motivation for self-development, which motivates them to study abroad. The analysis finds that the P-group's drive to contribute had been nurtured by a spirit of mutual aid in Sudanese society, which emphasises Islamic values and social ties. Religious norms, personal interactions and emotional ties to Sudan are especially influential on the P-group's motivation to contribute to their home society.

    Originality/value

    This study identifies drivers that lead to brain gain. Whereas previous studies have noted the relationship between return intentions and willingness to contribute to the home countries; they have not investigated influences on motivations to contribute. The results suggest that Sudan might already possess a system for local human resource development to encourage brain gain.

    DOI

  • Including Muslim Immigrants in the Public School Lunch Program in Higashihiroshima, Japan: A Migrant Integration Perspective

    CICE Journal of International Cooperation in Education   25 ( 1 ) 53 - 66  2022.10  [Refereed]

  • School Lunch and Muslimness: A Case Study in Higashihiroshima City, Japan

    Chiemi Kurokawa, Tatsuya Kusakabe

      24 ( 1 ) 177 - 188  2021.10

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Barriers to continued schooling for Sudanese refugees in Cairo, Egypt

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    Africa Educational Research Journal   11   55 - 66  2020  [Refereed]

  • Higher Education Policy Development and Brain Drain in Sudan: A Case Study in Khartoum

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    Journal of international cooperation in education   22 ( 1 ) 47 - 60  2019.10  [Refereed]

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Books and Other Publications

  • International Comparison of Re-formings of Islamic Education

    ( Part： Contributor)

    2022.02

  • Global education monitoring report summary, 2021/2: non-state actors in education: who chooses? who loses?

    ( Part： Joint translator)

    2022

Presentations

  • タカフル（相補的責任）を醸成する教育的営為とは－スーダン移民教師のナラティブに着目して－

    黒川智恵美

    日本比較教育学会第62回大会 

    Presentation date： 2026.07

  • ラウンドテーブル 日本の高等教育支援におけるアプローチの特性―エジプト、ケニア、スーダンの事例より―

    日下部達哉, 黒川智恵美, 寺野摩弓, 三宅智保, 十田麻衣

    国際開発学会第27回春季大会 

    Presentation date： 2026.06

  • Teaching Takaful: Sudanese Migrant Teachers' Narratives through the Lens of Islamic Education

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    Cambridge in Japan 

    Presentation date： 2026.04

  • Roundtable session “Islamic education in post-secular societies: Exploring contextualized learning for the society”

    Chiemi Kurokawa, Tatsuya Kusakabe, Manjuma Mousumi, Ateffa Jalali, Hideki Maruyama

    70th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society 

    Presentation date： 2026.03

  • 武力紛争と大学生：カイロに避難したスーダン人学生の葛藤と母国貢献の展望

    日本比較教育学会第61回大会 

    Presentation date： 2025.06

  • Peace Education with Teachers, Students, and Researchers: Insights from a Japanese School Case Using the Sudanese Crisis

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    the 35th Conference of Japan Society for Africa Educational Research 

    Presentation date： 2025.04

  • From Forced-Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Sudanese Students’ Struggle Amid Conflict and Potential for National Development

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    British Association for International & Comparative Education 2024 

    Presentation date： 2024.09

    Event date：
    2024.09
    　
    　

  • 紛争後のスーダン人高度人材の頭脳流入に関する考察

    日本比較教育学会第60回大会 

    Presentation date： 2024.06

  • ラウンドテーブル7 ユネスコ『私たちの未来を共に再構築する』報告書の課題ー協力と連帯の教育学の（再）構築に向けて

    丸山英樹, 米原あき, 黒川智恵美, 永田佳之

    日本比較教育学会第60回大会 

    Presentation date： 2024.06

  • A case study of Muslim parents’ school choice in Maryland, the U.S.

    Chiemi Kurokawa, Hagar Ibrahim

    Comparative & International Education Society 2024 

    Presentation date： 2024.03

  • Forced Brain Drain and Shuttered Brain Gain: A Case Study of Highly Skilled Sudanese After the War Happens in Sudan

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    13th Biennial Conference of the Comparative Education Society of Asia (CESA 2023) 

    Presentation date： 2023.11

  • 頭脳流出と頭脳流入－スーダン人高度人材の 揺れる母国への貢献意識に着目して－

    黒川智恵美

    日本比較教育学会第59回大会 

    Presentation date： 2023.06

  • 頭脳流出から頭脳流⼊へ －スーダン⼈⾼度⼈材の ⺟国貢献意識に着⽬して－

    黒川智恵美

    国際開発学会第 24 回春季大会 

    Presentation date： 2023.06

  • Brain drain, brain gain and the life course of migrants: A case study of highly skilled Sudanese in Japan

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    The 31st Japan Society for Africa Educational Research Conference 

    Presentation date： 2023.04

  • 高学歴スーダン移民の母国貢献意識に関する研究－意識的往還型人材に着目して－

    日本比較教育学会第58回大会 

    Presentation date： 2022.06

  • ラウンドテーブルⅡ-2 困難な状況下における海外調査――着想から論文執筆に至るまで

    乾 美紀, 市川 桂, 松本 麻人, 坂口 真康, 黒川 智恵美

    日本比較教育学会第58回大会 

    Presentation date： 2022.06

  • The New Scholars Dissertation Mentoring Workshop "Emigration, Education, and Life Course: Sudanese Migrants’ Drive to Contribute to their Mother Country"

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) 2022 

    Presentation date： 2022.04

  • Re-conceptualizing brain drain: Evidence from educated Sudanese migrants and refugees in Egypt and Japan

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    The 29th Conference of Japan Society for Africa Educational Research 

    Presentation date： 2022.04

  • Possibilities of Positive Brain Drain and Negative Brain Circulation: a case study of Sudanese Student Mobility

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    The 28th Conference of Japan Society for Africa Educational Research 

    Presentation date： 2021.10

  • Contribution to the motherland: Sudanese brain drainers' educational experience

    Chiemi Kurokawa

    Comparative Education Society of Asia (CESA) 12th Biennial Conference 

    Presentation date： 2021.09

  • 開発途上国の頭脳流出現象を再考する：高学歴スーダン移民の事例から

    黒川智恵美

    日本比較教育学会第57回大会 

    Presentation date： 2021.06

  • スーダン移民の日本における知識獲得活動と母国への貢献意識：状況的学習論を用いた考察

    黒川智恵美

    日本移民学会第30／31回年次大会 

    Presentation date： 2021.06

  • ラウンドテーブルIV 食マイノリティと学校給食－学校において多様性の実現は可能か－

    山ノ内 裕子, 四方 利明, 日下部 達哉, 浅田 憲彦, 黒川 智恵美

    日本子ども社会学会第27回大会 

    Presentation date： 2021.06

  • 意識的往還型人材の移住と帰還戦略―日本の高学歴スーダン移民の事例―

    黒川智恵美

    国際開発学会第 22 回春季大会 

    Presentation date： 2021.06

  • スーダン共和国における学生の高等教育進学の意義と進路形成―首都ハルツームの事例から―

    黒川智恵美

    日本比較教育学会第54回大会 

    Presentation date： 2018.06

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Research Projects

  • An International Comparative Study on Responses to Food Minorities in School Lunches: Perspectives on Exclusion and Inclusion

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2025.04
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    2028.03
     

  • Learning in the society and the drives to contribute to the home country: the case study of Sudanese highly skilled migrants and refugees

    Project Year :

    2023.04
    -
    2026.03
     

  • Emigration, Education, and Life Course: The Drive to Contribute to the Mother Country of Sudanese Migrants

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2021.04
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    2023.03
     

  • スーダン人往還移住民のライフコースと教育

    公益財団法人松下幸之助記念志財団  研究助成

    Project Year :

    2020.10
    -
    2021.09
     

 

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Sub-affiliation

  • Faculty of International Research and Education   School of International Liberal Studies