Kumiko Kawashima

Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Phone+61 2 9850 7943
Emailkumiko.kawashima@mq.edu.au

Research output per year

If you made any changes in Pure these will be visible here soon.

Personal profile

Biography

In her research to date, Kumiko has investigated the nexus between individual lives, labour and consumption in post-industrial contexts, as well as social transformation through the lens of transnational migration.

Trained in qualitative methods, she particularly values ethnography as a way to observe everyday practices and approach questions that have long fascinated sociologists and anthropologists alike, such as the relationships among identity formation, capitalism and modernity, and how these interact with issues of gender, class, ethnicity and culture.

Before joining Macquarie University, Kumiko completed her PhD at the Australian National University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kumiko_Kawashima

https://mq.academia.edu/KumikoKawashima

Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Kumiko Kawashima is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

1 Similar Profiles

Network Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.

Research Outputs

8 Article
4 Chapter
2 Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review
1 Conference proceeding contribution
1 More
- 1 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary/reference book

Why migrate to earn less? Changing tertiary education, skilled migration and class slippage in an economic downturn

Kawashima, K., 12 Mar 2020, In : Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Japanese labour migration to China and IT service outsourcing: the case of Dalian

Kawashima, K., 2019, Destination China: immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era. Lehmann, A. & Leonard, P. (eds.). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 123-145 23 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2 Citations (Scopus)

Longer-term consequences of 'youth' migration: Japanese temporary migrants in China and the life course

Kawashima, K., 2018, In : Journal of Intercultural Studies. 39, 6, p. 658-672 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2 Citations (Scopus)

Introduction for a special section on mobilities and exceptional spaces in Asia

Kawashima, K. & Yeoh, B. S. A., 2 Jan 2017, In : Asian Anthropology. 16, 1, p. 1-3 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article