Thursday, November 6, 2025

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Chika Shinohara is a sociologist and professor at the Department of Sociology, Momoyama Gakuin University (St. Andrew's University) in JAPAN.

Legal consciousness in globalizing society is her research interest. Currently, she is working on a few projects: migrant care workers and policies, sociologists' career paths in the life course, and social integration policies and identities in comparison.

My book chapter,“Contribution or Exploitation? Japan’s Migration and Policy in Globalization,” has been published in Handbook of Japan’s Foreign and Domestic Policies During the Decade of Abe (ed. by T. Minohara, MHM 2024).  Also, "Health and Globalization" has been out in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition (eds. by G.Ritzer et  al., Wiley 2025).  Another chapter, "Waves of Migration: Exploring the Context of East Asian Migrations,” from Handbook of Migration, International Relations and Security in Asia has been published  as well (ed. by AKM Ahsan Ullah, Singapore: Springer Nature 2025). 

Other publications include: “Migration Policy and Social Integration of Southeast Asian Workers” (Social Justice and Inequaity Journal 4(1), PSAT 2023); “Neo-Ottomanism and Cool Japan in Comparative Perspective” co-authored with M. Ergin (New Perspectives on Turkey 65, Cambridge 2021); "Institutionalization of Work Harassment Regulations and Legal Consciousness" (Social Movements Then and Now, ed. by K. Hasegawa, Yuhikaku 2020, in Japanese); “Rural Farmers in an Unequal World: Land Rights and Food Security for Sustainable Well-being” co-authored with S. Charoenratana (Land Use Policy 78, Elsevier 2018); "Global Linkages and Citizenship: Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and Social Attitude" (Studies on Contemporary Global Society, ed. by M. Yamada, Bunshindo 2018, in Japanese); and "Gender and the Great War: Tsuda Umeko’s Role in Institutionalizing Women’s Education in Japan" (The Decade of the Great War, ed. by T. Minohara, Brill 2014/2015).

She is an editorial advisory board member for Advances in Gender Research (Emerald) and the Social Justice and Inequality Journal (PSAT). 


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