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 Why leaving Japan? Research on European residents of Japan leaving for Europe
2017 - 2020 Study Abroad Students' Identification Practices, Motivations, and Learning Evaluations: Examining Heterogeneity and Fluidity
Papers (14):
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. 364. 375
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
Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan
Palgrave Macmillan 2016 ISBN:9781137565266
Family and Social Change in Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies: Change and Continuity in Eastern Europe and East Asia
Brill 2014 ISBN:9789004252219
Lectures and oral presentations (45):
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)
The Role of Class in Shaping Decisions to Move, Stay and Leave - Case of European Migrants in Japan (distributed paper)
(XX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2023)
Motivations for Study Abroad Among Central European Students of East Asian Studies amidst the Fading out Pandemic (distributed paper)
(XX ISA World Congress of Sociology 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)
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