[FUB-GEAS] GEAS Publication Announcements in December 2020

[Newsletter Graduate School of East Asian Studies <fub-geas@lists.fu-berlin.de>]

Dear friends and colleagues,

GEAS would like to wish all of you a wonderful winter time and hope that you will spend the winter break safe and well with family and friends!

We are very happy to present two essential new publications in December 2020:

 

New Publication: Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods

 

On December 18, 2020, the long-awaited Studying Japan Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods edited by Cornelia Reiher (GEAS vice director) Nora Kottmann (DIJ Tokyo) will finally be published. Studying Japan is the first comprehensive guide on qualitative methods, research designs and fieldwork in social science research on Japan. More than 70 Japan scholars from around the world provide an easy-to-read overview on qualitative methods used in research on Japan’s society, politics, culture and history. The book covers the entire research process from the outset to the completion of a thesis, a paper, or a book. The authors provide basic introductions to individual methods, discuss their experiences when applying these methods and highlight current trends in research on Japan. The book serves as a foundation for a course on qualitative research methods and can also be used as a reference for all researchers in Japanese Studies, the Social Sciences and Area Studies. It is an essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in Japan!

We are particularly proud because this handbook emerged from method courses taught at GEAS and the Japanese Studies Institute at FUB and includes contributions by current and former GEAS members and PIs.

Nomos Webshop:

https://www.nomos-shop.de/titel/studying-japan-id-89163/ 

Flyer with table of content:

https://www.nomos-shop.de/shopfiles/anhang_978-3-8487-5085-6_fly_wkn_5085-6.pdf

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New Publication: “Immigration Governance in East Asia: Norm Diffusion, Politics of Identity, Citizenship (Routledge)

The book is edited by members of the former EVF+ project at GEAS, Gunter Schubert, Franziska Plümmer and Anastasiya Bayok, and analyses immigration policies in East Asia in the context of contemporary global migration flows and mobility. It is one of the first scholarly attempts to investigate East Asian immigration from such a comprehensive perspective. East Asian states demonstrate both similarities and striking differences in their immigration governance strategies and practices. International norms, as well as established traditional connections between states and nations in East Asia, accompanied by economic interdependences and in some cases political tensions in the region, self-identity and perceptions of “the other” effect immigration policy in East Asia in multiply ways. To assess how global norms of migration have impacted the East Asian migration region and explore regional migration trends, the book contains 13 case studies which investigate the regulation of immigration in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Three analytical strands, namely, norm diffusion, identity politics, and citizenship, build the theoretical framework for the case studies which investigate how regional and national norms, discourses, and institutions affect local communities and migration patterns. The most recent world-wide mobility restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic could also leave its mark on immigration governance in East Asia.https://www.routledge.com/Immigration-Governance-in-East-Asia-Norm-Diffusion-Politics-of-Identity/Schubert-Plummer-Bayok/p/book/9780367559021

Season's greetings!

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