Aimi Muranaka

Aimi Muranaka, Dr.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow IN-EAST
Institute of East Asian Studies and
Institute of Sociology
Phone: +49 (0)203 37-92166
Email: aimi.muranaka@uni-due.de
Room: LE 717 -
► 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 Review. DOI: 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