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Update date: Aug. 29, 2019
Hof Helena
Hof Helena
Affiliation and department:
Job title:
Research Associate
Other affiliations (1):
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Sophia Univer
Adjunct Lecturer
Research field (1):
Sociology
Research keywords (6):
youth mobility
, ethnicity and gender
, diversity management and workplace studies
, global cities
, sociology
, Migration
Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
- 2019 - 2022 Tokyo's attractiveness for global talent: a comparative study of Tokyo, Singapore, and Sao Paulo
- 2017 - 2017 Haraguchi Memorial Asia Research Fund
- 2015 - 2015 Haraguchi Memorial Asia Research Fund
Papers (5):
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Helena Hof. The Eurostars Go Global: Young Europeans’ Migration to Asia for Distinction and Alternative Life Paths. Mobilities. 2019
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Gracia Liu-Farrer, Helena Hof. Ōtebyō: the Problems of Japanese Firms and the Problematic Elite Aspirations. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies. 2018. 34. 65-84
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Helena Hof. ‘Worklife Pathways’ to Singapore and Japan: Gender and Racial dynamics in Europeans` Mobility to Asia. Social Science Japan Journal. 2018. 21. 1. 45-65
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Helena Hof. Book review of: Title: Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan, by Milos Debnar. Social Science Japan Journal. 2017. 20. 2. 235-238
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Helena Hof, Graica Liu-Farrer. Gender, Labour and Migration in Japan. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture by Mark Pendleton, Jennifer Coates and Lucy Fraser (eds.). Routledge
Lectures and oral presentations (8):
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The Mobility Nexus: Skilled Foreigners’ Career Trajectories in and out of Changing Japan
(Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2019 Annual Conference, Denver 2019)
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Intimacy despite and through distance: Dual-career couples in Asian-European transnational social spaces
('Intimacy, sexuality and family in the process of migration', Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 2018)
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The Silent Exit of Europe’s Future?
(Conference Leaving Europe. Alternative Routes of Out/Upward Mobility 2018)
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Does ‘skilled’ equal ‘desired’? Deconstructing the meaning of skills in migration to Japan and Singapore
(International Conference 'The Question of Skills in Cross-border Labor Mobility', Waseda University, Tokyo, September 20-21, 2018. 2018)
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Bye-bye Europe - young European professionals living the ‘global’ in Singapore and Tokyo
(13th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2017)
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Education (3):
- 2015 - 2019 Waseda University Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies Doctoral Program in International Studies
- 2008 - 2012 Bonn University Bachelor in Asian Studies
- Waseda University Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies Master program in International Relations
Professional career (1):
Work history (5):
- 2019/04 - 現在 Sophia University Adjunct Lecturer
- 2018/10 - 現在 Waseda University Center for Asia-Pacific Studies Research Associate
- 2015/09 - 2018/09 Waseda University Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies Research Assistant
- 2014/09 - 2015/08 Waseda University Center for International Education Teaching Assistant
- 2012/04 - 2012/09 German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tokyo Member Service Department Intern
Awards (1):
- 2014/03 - Waseda University Highest Honors List of the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies
Association Membership(s) (1):
JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES
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