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J-GLOBAL ID:201801007131826110   Update date: Aug. 29, 2019

Hof Helena

Hof Helena
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Research Associate
Other affiliations (1):
  • 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):
  • Helena Hof. The Eurostars Go Global: Young Europeans’ Migration to Asia for Distinction and Alternative Life Paths. Mobilities. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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):
  • The Mobility Nexus: Skilled Foreigners’ Career Trajectories in and out of Changing Japan
    (Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2019 Annual Conference, Denver 2019)
  • 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)
  • The Silent Exit of Europe’s Future?
    (Conference Leaving Europe. Alternative Routes of Out/Upward Mobility 2018)
  • 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)
  • 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):
  • PhD (Waseda University)
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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