Professor Hideki Tarumoto

Hideki Tarumoto is a professor in the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Tokyo, Japan (1999). He was Research Associate at Hokkaido University (1995-1997), Associate Professor (1997-2015), Professor (2015-2017), Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK (2001), and Invited Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, France (2013). His research interests include citizenship and migration, migration and asylum policies, integration policies, and ethnic stratification from a comparative perspective between Europe and Asia, particularly the UK and Japan.

His main publications include Kokusai shakaigaku chonyumon: Iminmondai kara kangaeru shakaigaku (Super Introduction of Transnational Sociology: Sociology from Immigration Issues); Kokusai imin to shiminken gabanansu (International Migration and Citizenship Governance, Mineruva Shobo, 2016, 2nd edition); Yokuwakaru kokusai shakaigaku (Understandable Transnational Sociology, Mineruva Shobo, 2009); Migration and Citizenship in East Asia (Marisol Garci'a Cabeza and Thomas Faist (eds) Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024); Considering Super-diversity in Immigration: Post-Western Sociology and the Japanese Case (Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Li Peilin, Kim Seung Kuk, and Yazawa Shujiro (eds.) Handbook of Post-Western Sociology: From East Asia to Europe, Brill, 2023); La transformation en pays d'immigration dans le contexte urbain? Le cas du Japon (Fiorenza Gamba, Sandro Cattacin, et Nerea Viana Aolzola (dir.) Ville et cre'ativite', Seismo 2023); Immigrant Acceptance in an Ethnic Country: The Foreign Labor Policies of Japan (John Stone, Rutledge Dennis, Polly Rizova, and Xiaoshuo Hou (eds) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, John Wiley & Sons, 2020); Why Restrictive Refugee Policy Can Be Retained? A Japanese Case (Migration and Development, 8(1), 2019); The Limits of Local Citizenship in Japan (Thomas Lacroix and Amandine Desille (eds) International Migrations and Local Governance: A Global Perspective}, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).