{"id":15912,"date":"2025-09-30T17:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/?p=15912"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:52:15","slug":"aimi-muranaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/faculty-en\/15912","title":{"rendered":"Aimi MURANAKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Degree\uff1a<\/strong><br \/>\nPh.D., University of Duisburg-Essen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Background<\/strong>\uff1a<br \/>\n-Post-doc\/ research associate at the Institute of East-Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen (2025)<br \/>\n-Principal Investigator of a collaborative research project at the Institute of East-Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen (2021-2024)<br \/>\n-Post-doc\/ research associate at the Institute of East-Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen (2020-2021)<br \/>\n-Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of East-Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen (2015-2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Field of Specialization<\/h3>\n<p>International Migration Studies, Japan Studies<\/p>\n<h3>Research Theme<\/h3>\n<p>International skilled migration, mobility, brokerage, migration industry\/ infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Major Works \/ Publications \/ Awards<\/h3>\n<h4>Major Works \/ Publications<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Hof, H., Muranaka, A., and Park, J. J. (2024) \u201cEmployment as an anchor: The prospects of emerging skilled migration regimes through the lens of migrants\u2019 access to the labor market.\u201d Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 33(3), 554-576.<\/li>\n<li>Muranaka, A. (2024) \u201cPerks or Burdens? Being \u2018Nearly (Im)mobile\u2019 as IT Foreign Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan.\u201d Contemporary Japan.<\/li>\n<li>Wang, A. Z., Muranaka, A., and Coulmas, F. (2024) \u201cImmigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies: How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany?\u201d Routledge.<\/li>\n<li>Muranaka, A. (2024) \u201cBeing a Foreigner During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Researcher Positionality in Online Interviews.\u201d Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 25(1).<\/li>\n<li>Muranaka, A. (2023) \u201c\u2018Framing\u2019 and \u2018Packaging\u2019 of Foreign Skilled Workers: Diversity of the Intermediary Actors in the Cross-Border Labour Market Between Japan and Vietnam\u201d. Globalizations, 20(4), 696-713.<\/li>\n<li>Tran, H. A. and Muranaka, A. (2022) \u201cEditorial \u2013 Transnational Flows of Contemporary Asia: Trends and Futures\u201d. (special issue) The German Journal on Contemporary Asia\/ ASIEN. 162\/163: 7-14.<\/li>\n<li>Muranaka, A. (2022) \u201cBrokerage in the cross-border labour market: Recruitment and training of Vietnamese IT workers by Japanese temporary staffing firms.\u201d Asian Studies Review. 46(4): 578-596.<\/li>\n<li>Muranaka, A. (2022) \u201cBeyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross-border labour market between Japan and Vietnam.\u201d Global Networks. 22(3): 514-529.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Academic Societies \/ Service to Society<\/h3>\n<h4>Academic Societies<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE)<\/li>\n<li>Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM)<\/li>\n<li>European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS)<\/li>\n<li>European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)<\/li>\n<li>Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA Ruhr)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Web Page \/ Researcher DB<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8442-0464\">ORCID<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/fire\/gsaps\/en\/about\/faculty\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track) [WIAPS]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16321,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912\/revisions\/16321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}