Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2019 - 2022 Staying or leaving? Choices of further mobility or settlement of European migrants in Japan
2019 - 2022 日本をなぜ離れるか-日本在住経験者のヨーロッパ人の帰国選択に関する研究
2017 - 2020 Study Abroad Students' Identification Practices, Motivations, and Learning Evaluations: Examining Heterogeneity and Fluidity
Papers (15):
Debnár, M. White European migrants in Japan-between an unmarked category and racialized subjects. The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies. 2023
Miloš Debnár. Privileged, Highly Skilled and Unproblematic? White Europeans in Japan as Migrants. Expatriation and Migration: Two Faces of the Same Coin. 2022. 41-66
Spela Drnovsek Zorko, Milos Debnar. Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK. COMPARATIVE MIGRATION STUDIES. 2021. 9. 1
Debnár Miloš. “Ryūgakusei” as students, workers, or migrants? Multiple meanings and borders of international students in Japan. The Global Education Effect and Japan - Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices. 2020
DEBNAR Milos. Coping with the Inbound Tourism in Gion: Resisting the Touristic Gaze. Intercultural Studies. 2019. 23. 29-47
Why do you want to study in Japan? Perceived value and motivations to study in Japan by Central European universities’ students
(17th International conference of the EAJS 2023)
Aspirations and capabilities of further mobility among middle-class European migrants to Japan
(Forschungskolloquium, Japan-Zentrum, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2022)
Locating the complexity of whiteness in the migration context of Japan
(Researching Whiteness in a Transnational Pandemic Context, University of Amsterdam)
Diversity and integration of Europeans in Japan - the role of whiteness and conceptual issues
(Open and closed societies: historical reasons and modern consequences of inequality in Japan and Europe, University of Tartu)
Superdiversity and racialization in different context: Central and Eastern Europeans in the UK and Japan
(Looking back to look forward: Celebrating 10 Years of Research on Migration, Forced Displacement and Superdiversity 2022)
2010 - 2014 Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Sociology
2008 - 2010 Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Sociology
1999 - 2006 Comenius University Faculty of Letters Japanese language and intercultural communication
Professional career (3):
PhD (Kyoto University)
MA (Kyoto University)
Mgr (MA) (Comenius University)
Work history (3):
2022/04 - 現在 Ryukoku University Faculty of International Studies Associate Professor
2017/04 - 2022/03 Ryukoku University Faculty of International Studies Lecturer
2014 - 2017 Doshisha University Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology Assistant Professor
Association Membership(s) (5):
Japan Association for Migration Policy Studies
, European Association of Japanese Studies
, International Sociological Association
, Kansai Sociological Association
, The Japan Sociological Association